Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WORTHEN

WORTHEN, a village and a township in Salop, and a parish partly also in Montgomeryshire, but all in Montgomery district. The village stands 3¼ miles WSW of Minsterley r. station, and 12½ SW by W of Shrewsbury; was once a market-town; and has a post-office under Shrewsbury. The township includes several hamlets. Pop. in 1851, 2,887; in 1861, 3,150. Houses, 629. The parish contains three other townships, and comprises 18,130 acres. Real property, £14,100. Pop. in 1851, 3,325; in 1861, 3,723. Houses, 738. The property is much subdivided. There are lead mines, supposed to have been part of the ancient boundary between England and Wales, a circular mound, called the Beacon Ring, and several barrows. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £1,088.* Patron, New College, Oxford. The church was partially restored in 1849. The rectory of Hope, the vicarage of Trelystan, and the p. curacy of Leighton are separate benefices. There are dissenting chapels, national schools, and charities £33.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Forden RegD/Inc/PLU       Montgomeryshire AncC       Shropshire AncC
Place: Worthen

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