Uffington, Shropshire
Historical Description
Uffington, a village and a parish in Salop, on the river Severn and the Shropshire Union Canal, 3 miles ENE of Shrewsbury, with a post office under Shrewsbury; money order office, Shrewsbury; telegraph office, Upton Magna. Acreage, 3055; population of the civil parish, 309; of the ecclesiastical, 154. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. The civil parish includes Haughmond, where are the ruins of an Augustinian abbey founded in the 12th century. Sundorne Castle and Pimley Manor are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £90 with residence. The church is good.
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 | Uffington Holy Trinity | |
Hundred | South Bradford | |
Poor Law union | Atcham | |
Registration district | Atcham | 1837 - 1935 |
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 Uffington
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Uffington from 1837 to 1935 you should search for the Atcham Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Uffington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Uffington (Holy Trinity))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Uffington 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.