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.
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 | Stottesden St. Mary | |
Hundred | Stottesden | |
Poor Law union | Cleobury-Mortimer |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stottesden from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stottesden (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Stottesden 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.