History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire [1851]

Name: History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire [1851]
Author: Bagshaw, Samuel

Bagshaw, Samuel

Shropshire (England) -- Directories; Shropshire (England) -- Gazetteers; Shropshire (England) -- History

Transcribed from the 1851 Samuel Harrison edition by David Price, email
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                          [Picture: Book cover]





                                 HISTORY,
                         GAZETTEER, AND DIRECTORY
                                    OF
                               SHROPSHIRE;


                                COMPRISING
                     A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY,
                            WITH A VARIETY OF
           HISTORICAL, STATISTICAL, TOPOGRAPHICAL, COMMERCIAL,
                      AND AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION:

                                 SHEWING
               THE SITUATION, EXTENT, AND POPULATION OF ALL
     _THE TOWNS_, _PARISHES_, _CHAPELRIES_, _TOWNSHIPS_, _VILLAGES_,
               _HAMLETS_, _AND EXTRA-PAROCHIAL LIBERTIES_;

               THEIR AGRICULTURAL AND MINERAL PRODUCTIONS;

             THE LORDS OF THE MANORS AND OWNERS OF THE SOIL;
 THEIR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, CHARITIES, ANTIQUITIES, & HISTORICAL EVENTS;

                              WITH A LIST OF

            MAGISTRATES, PUBLIC OFFICERS, & CORPORATE BODIES;
                                   AND
                  THE SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY:

                              IN ONE VOLUME,

              WITH A LARGE COLOURED SHEET MAP OF THE COUNTY:

                            BY SAMUEL BAGSHAW,

       Author of similar Works for Derbyshire, Kent, Cheshire, &c.

                                * * * * *

                                SHEFFIELD:

        PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY SAMUEL HARRISON, 5, HIGH-STREET,
         AND SOLD BY SAMUEL BAGSHAW, WENTWORTH TERRACE, SHEFFIELD
                      Price to Subscribers, 14s. 6d.

                                   1851





                                 PREFACE.


IN presenting the Public with a popular History and Topography of the
County of Salop, with a Directory of its Inhabitants, the author has to
acknowledge his great obligations to the literary and official gentlemen
of the county, who have so freely furnished his agents with valuable
information, as well as to those who have honoured the publisher with
immediate communications; and also to the numerous subscribers who have
so liberally patronised the work.  As authenticity is the grand
desideratum of Topography, all possible care has been taken to avoid
errors.  Every Parish, Township, Village, and Hamlet, with all the
principal Residences and Farm Houses in the county have been visited for
the addresses, and to authenticate the necessary information.  It is,
therefore, hoped that the great variety of subjects compressed within its
pages will be found complete and satisfactory to its numerous patrons,
and that the volume will be found an acquisition either to the library or
the office.

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History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire [1851]

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