Sheinton or Shineton, Shropshire
Historical Description
Sheinton or Shineton, a parish in Salop, on the river Severn, 1½ mile E of Cressage station on the Severn Valley branch of the G.W.R. and 3 miles N by W of Much Wen-lock. Post town, Shrewsbury; money order and telegraph office, Cressage. Acreage, 982; population, 114. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £173 with residence. The church is ancient and was restored in 1854.
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 | Sheinton St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Hundred | Stottesden | |
Poor Law union | Atcham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
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 Sheinton or Shineton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sheinton (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Sheinton or Shineton 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.