Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CRUCKTON

CRUCKTON, a chapelry, with a village, in Pontesbury parish, Salop; 3 miles WSW of Shrewsbury town and r. station. Post town, Shrewsbury. Real property, £4, 981. Pop., 155. The property is divided among a few. Cruckton Hall is the seat of the Harrieses. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the second Pontesbury rectory, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Pontesbury AP/CP       Shropshire AncC
Place: Cruckton

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