Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PURSLOW

PURSLOW, a township and a hundred in Salop. The township is in Clunbury parish, and lies 5½ miles S E of Bishops-Castle. Pop., 31. The hundred comprises thedivisions of Bishops-Castle and Stow. Acres, 66, 342. Pop., 9, 536. Houses, 1,876.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a township and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Shropshire AncC
Place: Purslow

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