Sambrook, Shropshire
Historical Description
Sambrook, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Edgmond, Cheswardine, and Chetwynd parishes, Salop. The township is 5 miles N of Newport, and has a post office under Newport; money order office, Hinstock; telegraph office, Cheswardine. The ecclesiastical parish includes also the townships of Howle and Pickstock, and was constituted in 1856. Population, 421. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £150 with residence. The church is good. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Howle.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Sambrook 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.