Front matter
Reading edition
Transcribed from the 1851 Samuel Harrison edition by David Price, email ccx074@pgaf.org
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