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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.

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 parishPreston-Gubbals St. Martin 
LibertyBorough of Shrewsbury 
Poor Law unionAtcham 

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:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

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