Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Worthen

Worthen, township and vil., Shropshire, and par., partly also in Montgomeryshire - par., 18,009 ac., pop. 3717; township (containing Hope, eccl. dist.), 13,760 ac., pop. 3209; vil., 3½ miles W. of Minsterley sta. and 12½ SW. of Shrewsbury; P.O.; has lead mines.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Shropshire AncC
Place: Worthen

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