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Penley, Flintshire

Historical Description

Penley, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Ellesmere parish, Flintshire, adjacent to Salop, 4 miles N by E of Ellesmere. There is a post office under Ellesmere; money order and telegraph offices, Hanmer and Overton. Acreage, 2124; population, 321. Penley Hall is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £143. Patron, the Vicar of Ellesmere. The church is modern, occupying the site of one built about the beginning of the 16th century.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Registration districtEllesmere1837 - 1935
Registration districtOverton1935 - 1953
Registration districtMaelor1954 - 1974

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Flintshire is available to browse.


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online: