Preston on the Weald Moors, Shropshire

Historical Description

Preston-on-the Weald-Moors, a village and a parish in Salop, on the Shropshire Canal, 2 miles WNW of Donnington station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4 NE of Wellington. Post town, Wellington; money order and telegraph office, Donnington. Acreage of the civil parish, 990; population, 229; of the ecclesiastical, 233. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £140. The church was erected in 1739 and enlarged in 1853. Preston, Hospital for widows and children was founded in 1716 by Lady Herbert, and has an endowed income of £2197.

Administration

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

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 Preston on The Weald Moors

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 Preston on the Weald Moors from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Preston-upon-the-Wild-Moors (St. Lawrence))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Preston on the Weald Moors 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.