Halfway House, Shropshire
Historical Description
Halfway House, a place 1 mile from Westbury station on the Shrewsbury and Welshpool Joint (L. & N.W. and G.W.) railway, and 9 miles from Shrewsbury, Salop, with a post and money order office under Shrewsbury; telegraph office, Westbury station.'
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Halfway House 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: