Baschurch, Shropshire
Historical Description
Baschurch, a village, a township, and a parish in Salop. The village lies near the river Perry, 8 miles NW of Shrewsbury, and has a station on the G.W.R., and a post office under Shrewsbury. The parish includes also the townships of Birch, Boreatton, Eyton, Fennemere, Merehouse, Newtown, Prescott, Stanwardine-in-the-Wood, Stanwardine-in-the-Fields, Walford, Weston-Lullingfield, and Yeaton. Acreage, 8491; population of the civil parish, 1439; of the ecclesiastical, 1443. On Berth Hill there are remains of ancient fortifications, and a deep pool or mere. Boreatton Hall is the seat of the lord of the manor. Walford Manor and Walford Hall are other principal residences. Stanwardine Hall, dating from 1560, is now a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £335 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is ancient, partly Norman; it contains an ancient font and some monuments, and an old Bible chained to the wall. The vicarage of Weston-Lullingfield is a separate benefice. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Newtown, and chapels for Primitive Methodists at Walford Heath and Weston Common. Hawies' charity, with an income of about £400, supports schools at Newtown and Weston.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Salop | |
County Court district | Madeley | |
Diocese | Lichfield | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Baschurch All Saints | |
Hundred | Pimhill | |
Petty-Sessional Division | Wenlock | |
Poor Law union | Ellesmere | |
Registration district | Ellesmere | 1837 - 1935 |
Registration district | Oswestry | 1935 - 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 Baschurch
The Register dates from the year 1600.
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints is an ancient building of stone, in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, south aisle and an embattled tower containing 4 bells and a clock with chimes, erected in 1887 at a cost of £37 10s.: the font dates from 1681, and there are monuments to Thomas Corbet, dated 1615, and Thomas Slaney M.P. for Shrewsbury, who served in eight parliaments: here also is an old chained Bible, given in 1770 by the Rev. Robert Jeffreys, vicar here for 58 years, who died in 1800: in 1885 the chancel was restored and the floor relaid with marble, a new organ chamber and vestry built and a stained east window erected, at a cost of £1,000, as a memorial to the Rev. William Jones M.A. vicar 1837-83: when the plaster was removed from the walls in 1894 four monumental arches of great antiquity were discovered in the south wall; new windows were then inserted throughout the church, and the old high pews removed, and in 1904 the gallery was taken down and an old window and arch opened out at the west end: there are 400 sittings.
All Saints, Baschurch | All Saints, Baschurch |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Baschurch from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Baschurch (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Baschurch 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.