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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountySalop 
Ecclesiastical parishLee-Botwood St. Mary 
HundredCondover 
Poor Law unionChurch-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:


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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Shropshire newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.

CountyShropshire
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtSY6
Post TownChurch Stretton

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