Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EARDINGTON

EARDINGTON, a township, with a r. station, in Quatford parish, Salop; on the Severn river and the Severn Valley railway, 1-½ mile S of Bridgnorth. Acres, 1, 301. Real property, £5, 876; of which £100 are in quarries, £100 in mines, and £120 in iron-works. Pop., 370. Houses, 76. A stoppage of coal and brickworks here occasioned a decrease of about one-fourth of the population between 1851 and 1861.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township, with a r station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Eardington CP/Tn       Quatford AP/CP       Shropshire AncC
Place: Eardington

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