Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Boscobel

Boscobel, par., N. Shropshire, on verge of the co., 6 miles NE. of Shifnal, 600 ac., pop. 23. Boscobel House was a hiding-place of Charles II., after the battle of Worcester, Sept. 3,1651.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Boscobel ExP/CP       Shropshire AncC
Place: Boscobel

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