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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Salop | |
Civil parish | Prees | |
Hundred | North 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:
- 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.