Clee St Margaret, Shropshire
Historical Description
Clee St Margaret, a village, a township, and a parish in Salop, under the Clee Hills, 7¼ miles NNE of Ludlow. The township includes the hamlet of Coxshutford, and its post town is Craven Arms (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Ludlow. Acreage, 1583; population, 224. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £200 with residence. The church is ancient, and was repaired in 1870. There are two Primitive Methodist chapels.
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 | Clee St. Margaret's | |
Hundred | Munslow | |
Poor Law union | Ludlow |
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 Clee St Margaret
The register has a single entry of the year 1634, but is continuous only from 1660.
Churches
Church of England
St. Margaret (parish church)
The church of St. Margaret is an ancient edifice of stone, dating from the latter part of the Norman period, and consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret containing 2 bells: there are two hagioscopes, one on either side of the chancel arch: the east and north walls of the chancel are of herring-bone masonry: a new organ was provided in the year 1896: the turret was rebuilt in 1897 at a cost of about £100.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Clee St Margaret from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Clee (St. Margaret's))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Clee St Margaret 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.