Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ASTERTON

ASTERTON, a township in Norbury parish, Salop; on Long Mynd hills, 4½ miles SW of Church-Stretton. Pop., 164.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Norbury CP/Ch       Shropshire AncC
Place: Asterton

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