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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BUTTINGTON, a parish in the district and county of Montgomery; on Offa's Dyke, the river Severn, and the Oswestry and Newtown railway, 2 miles NE of Welshpool. It has a station on the railway; and includes the townships of Cletterwood, Hope, and Trewern; and its Post Town is Welshpool. Acres, 5,099. Real property, £6,106. Pop., 935. Houses, 173. The property is divided among a few. A sharp victory was obtained here, in 894, by the Saxons over the Danes; and nearly the last of the sanguinary struggles of the Welsh for national independence was made here. Several ancient entrenchments are on the hills; and a vast quantity of human bones was found, not many years ago, in digging for a foundation. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £127.* Patron, the Vicar of Welshpool. The church is early English, and good.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Buttington AP/Tn Montgomeryshire AncC |
| Place: | Buttington |
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