All Stretton, Shropshire
Historical Description
All-Stretton, a township in Church-Stretton parish, Salop, 1¼ mile N of Church-Stretton. It has a post office under Church-Stretton (R.S.O.), which is the telegraph office.
Churches
Church of England
St. Michael and All Angels (parish church)
The chapel of ease of St. Michael and All Angels was erected in 1902, and will seat 230 persons.
Congregational
Congregational Chapel
There is a Congregational chapel, erected in 1907 and seating 120 persons.
History
By Local Government Board Order No. 39,881, dated Oct. 1, 1899, it was created a civil parish from Church Stretton.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of All Stretton 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.