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Whixhall, Shropshire

Historical Description

Whixhall, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Frees parish, Salop, on the Ellesmere and Chester Canal, 1½ mile W by N of Frees station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4 miles N by E of Wem. There is a post office under Whitchurch; money order and telegraph office, Prees. Population, 1070. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £297 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Frees. The church was rebuilt in 1867. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.

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 
Civil parishPrees 
HundredNorth Bradford 

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


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Whixhall from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Whixhall are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Shropshire newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.