Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HABBERLEY

HABBERLEY, a parish in Atcham district, Salop; under Stiperstones hill, 1½ mile S by E of Pontesbury r. station, and 8½ SW of Shrewsbury. Post town, Minsterley, under Shrewsbury. Acres, 795. Real property, £4, 760; of which £300 are in mines. Pop., in 1851, 144; in 1861, 112. Houses, 26. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocesc of Hereford. Value, £158.* Patron, W. H. Sparrow, Esq. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Habberley AP/CP       Atcham RegD/PLU       Shropshire AncC
Place: Habberley

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