Brace Meole or Meole Brace, Shropshire
Historical Description
Brace-Meole or Meole-Brace, a parish in Salop, 1½ mile S of Shrewsbury. It is partly within Shrewsbury borough, includes the townships of Kingsland, Newton and Edgbold, Nobold, and Pulley; and contains the Shrewsbury general cemetery. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Shrewsbury. Acreage, 2938; population of the civil parish, 1608; of the ecclesiastical, 1804. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £360 with residence. The church, rebuilt in 1869, is a handsome structure with a massive embattled tower. There are also almshouses. The new buildings of Shrewsbury school are at Kingsland.
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 | Brace-Meole All Saints | |
Liberty | Borough of Shrewsbury | |
Poor Law union | Shrewsbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
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 Brace Meole or Meole Brace from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brace-Meole (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Brace Meole or Meole Brace 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.