Lineal, Shropshire
Historical Description
Lineal, a village in Ellesmere parish, Salop, on the Ellesmere Canal, 3 miles ESE of Ellesmere. It was united in 1869 with the village of Colemere to form an ecclesiastical parish. Population, 332. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £126 with residence. Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church was erected in 1870 in memory of the second Earl Brownlow. Under the Parish Councils Act Lineal forms a ward of Ellesmere.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
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.