Farlow, Shropshire
Historical Description
Farlow, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Stot-tesden parish, Salop. The township lies near the river Reay 5 miles NW by N of Cleobury Mortimer. It has a post office-under Bewdley; money order and telegraph office, Cleobury Mortimer. Acreage, 2117; population, 329. The ecclesiastical parish includes the townships of Upper and Lower Ingardine, the Low and Oreton, and was constituted in 1854. Population, 540. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £90 with residence. The church was-built in 1858, and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Salop | |
Civil parish | Stottesden | |
Hundred | Stottesden | |
Poor Law union | Cleobury-Mortimer |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Shropshire Archives have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Farlow
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Farlow from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Farlow are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Shropshire newspapers online:
- Shrewsbury Chronicle
- Wellington Journal
- Eddowes's Journal, and General Advertiser for Shropshire, and the Principality of Wales
- Ludlow Advertiser
- Salopian Journal
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.