History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire [1851]
Transcribed from the 1851 Samuel Harrison edition by David Price, email ccx074@pgaf.org
COMPRISING A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY, WITH A VARIETY OF HISTORICAL, STATISTICAL, TOPOGRAPHICAL, COMMERCIAL, AND AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION:
SHEWING THE SITUATION, EXTENT, AND POPULATION OF ALL THE TOWNS , PARISHES , CHAPELRIES , TOWNSHIPS , VILLAGES , HAMLETS , AND EXTRA-PAROCHIAL LIBERTIES ;
THEIR AGRICULTURAL AND MINERAL PRODUCTIONS;
THE LORDS OF THE MANORS AND OWNERS OF THE SOIL; THEIR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, CHARITIES, ANTIQUITIES, & HISTORICAL EVENTS;
WITH A LIST OF
MAGISTRATES, PUBLIC OFFICERS, & CORPORATE BODIES; AND THE SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY:
IN ONE VOLUME,
WITH A LARGE COLOURED SHEET MAP OF THE COUNTY:
BY SAMUEL BAGSHAW,
Author of similar Works for Derbyshire, Kent, Cheshire, &c.
SHEFFIELD:
