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SAMBROOK, two townships and a chapelry on the N E border of Salop; averagely 5 miles N N W of Newport r. station. The townships are in respectively Chetwynd and Cheswardine parishes; and the chapelry includes also part of Edgmond parish, and was constituted in 1856. Post-town, Newport, Salop. Rated property, £3, 941. Pop., 552. Houses, 113. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £165.* Patron, J.B. Borough, Esq. The church is good.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "two townships and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Shropshire AncC |
Place: | Sambrook |
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