Moreton or Morton, Shropshire
Historical Description
Moreton or Morton, a township in Oswestry parish, and an ecclesiastical parish partly also in Llanyblodwell parish, Salop. The township lies on the Montgomery Canal, between Offa's Dyke and Watt's Dyke, near Llynclys station on the Cambrian railway, 2 miles from the boundary with Wales, and 3½ S of Oswestry. It has a post office under Oswestry; money order office, Llynclys; telegraph office, Llynclys railway station. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1861, and includes also the township of Crickheath, and part of the township of Sweeney. Population, 821. For parish council purposes Moreton is in Oswestry rural parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Asaph; gross value, £638 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was rebuilt in 1873. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
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 | Llanyblodwell | |
Hundred | Oswestry |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Moreton or Morton 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 Moreton or Morton 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.