Leebotwood, Shropshire
Historical Description
Leebotwood, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands on Watling Street, 4 miles NNE of Church Stretton, and has a station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint (L. & N.W. and G.W.) railway, and a post office under Shrewsbury; money order and telegraph office, Dorrington. The parish comprises 1287 acres; population of the civil parish, 156; of the ecclesiastical, with Longnor, 354. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Longnor, in the diocese of Lichfield; joint net value, £160. The church belonged to Haughmond Abbey, is ancient, and has a tower.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Salop | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Lee-Botwood St. Mary | |
Hundred | Condover | |
Poor Law union | Church-Stretton |
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 Leebotwood
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Leebotwood from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lee-Botwood (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Leebotwood 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.