Nash, Shropshire
Historical Description
Nash, a township-chapelry in Burford parish, Salop, near the boundary with Worcestershire, 2 miles N by E of Tenbury. Post town, Tenbury. Acreage, including Western and Tilsop, 2331; population, 480. There is a parish council consisting of seven members besides a chairman. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the first portion of the rectory of Burford, in the diocese of Hereford. The chapel of ease consists of chancel, nave, aisles, porch, and tower.
Churches
Church of England
Nash Chapel
There is an ancient chapel consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north aisle, south porch and a western tower with spire containing one new bell of 7 cwt.: the western windows are stained.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Nash 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.