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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.
BASCHURCH, a township, a parish, and a subdistrict, in the district of Ellesmere, Salop. The township lies on the river Perry, near the Ellesmere canal and the Shrewsbury and Chester railway, 8 miles NW of Shrewsbury; and has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Shrewsbury. The parish includes also the townships of Little Ness, Birch, Boreatton or Bratton, Eyton, Fennemere, Merehouse, or Murhouse, Newtown, Prescott, Stanwardine-in-the-Wood, Stanwardine-in-the-Fields, Walford, Weston-Lullingfield, and Yeaton. Acres, 8,273. Real property, £15,791. Pop., 1,559. Houses, 320. The property is subdivided. There are traces of a Roman camp. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £203.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient. The vicarage of Weston Lullingfield is a separate benefice. Harris's school has an endowed income of £324, and other charities have £17.-The subdistrict comprises four parishes. Acres, 21,283. Pop., 3,435. Houses, 712.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township, a parish, and a subdistrict" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Baschurch CP/AP Baschurch SubD Shropshire AncC |
| Place: | Baschurch |
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