Preston Gubbals or Preston Gobbalds, Shropshire
Historical Description
Preston Gubbals or Preston Gobbalds, a purely agricultural parish in Salop, 2 miles NE of Leaton station on the Shrewsbury and Cheshire section of the G.W.R., 2½ W of Hadnall station on the Shrewsbury and Crewe section of the L. & N.W.R., and 4½ N of Shrewsbury. It contains the township of Merington and the hamlet of Bomere Heath, and has a post office under Shrewsbury; money order office, Bomere Heath; telegraph office, Hadnall. Acreage, 2349; population of the civil parish, 416; of the ecclesiastical, 317. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Lea Hall is now a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lich-field; net value, £105. The church was rebuilt in 1866.
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 | Preston-Gubbals St. Martin | |
Liberty | Borough of Shrewsbury | |
Poor Law union | Atcham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Preston Gubbals or Preston Gobbalds from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Preston-Gubbals (St. Martin))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Preston Gubbals or Preston Gobbalds 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.