Wentnor, Shropshire
Historical Description
Wentnor, a village and a parish in Salop. The village lies under the Long Mynd, 2½ miles N of Eaton station on the Bishops Castle railway, and 5½ NE of Bishops Castle. It has a post office under Bishops Castle (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Bishops Castle. The parish includes the townships of Adstone, Home, Kinnerton, Medlicott, and Ritton. Acreage, 6303; population, 583. There is a parish council of nine members and a chairman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £223. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1885, and retains portion of the former Norman church.
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 | Wentnor St. Michael | |
Hundred | Purslow | |
Poor Law union | Clun | |
Registration district | Clun | 1837 - 2005 |
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 Wentnor
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Wentnor from 1837 to 2005 you should search for the Clun Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wentnor from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wentnor (St. Michael))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wentnor 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.