Bouldon, Shropshire
Historical Description
Bouldon, a township in Holdgate and Diddlebury parishes, Salop, on the Pye Brook, 7½ miles NNE of Ludlow. It was transferred in 1881 to Diddlebury parish for civil purposes, but remains in that of Holdgate ecclesiastically. There is a small church.
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 | Holdgate | |
Hundred | Munslow | |
Poor Law union | Ludlow |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bouldon 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 Bouldon 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.