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Stottesden, Shropshire

Historical Description

Stottesden, a village and a parish in Salop. The village lies 5 miles N of Cleobury Mortimer, and has a post office under Bewdley; money order office, Burwarton; telegraph office, Cleobury Mortimer, The parish contains also the townships of Baggin's Wood, Baldley, Duddlewick, Chorley, Harcourt, Hinton, Newton, Northwood, Oreton, Overton, Picthorn, Prescot, Walkerslowe, Walton, and Wrickton, and the township and ecclesiastical parish of Farlow. Acreage, 11,603; population of the civil parish, 1300; of the ecclesiastical, 701. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Chorley Hall is the chief residence. There are corn mills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £594 with residence. The church is partly Norman, and was restored in 1868. It contains a Norman font and some fragments of old stained glass. The vicarage of Farlow is a separate benefice. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Stottesden, a Baptist chapel at Chorley, and a Primitive Methodist chapel at Wrickton.

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 parishStottesden St. Mary 
HundredStottesden 
Poor Law unionCleobury-Mortimer 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Directories & Gazetteers

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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.