Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STRETTON-CHURCH

STRETTON-CHURCH, a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Salop. The town stands on the Shrewsbury and Hereford railway, in a fine rugged hollow, between Long Mynd and Wenlock Edge, 12¾ miles S by W of Shrewsbury; is a seat of petty sessions, and a polling place; consists chiefly of one street; and has a head post-office,‡ a r. station with telegraph, a cruciform early English church, an Independent chapel of 1866, a free school, alms houses, a workhouse, charities £20, a weekly market on Thursday, and 5 annual fairs. The parish includes All-Stretton and Little-Stretton townships and comprises 10,716 acres. Real property, £5,949. Pop., 1,695. Houses, 350. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £542.* Patron,O.Pemberton, Esq.—The sub-district contains 8 parishes. Acres, 24,870. Pop., 3,928. Houses, 806.—The district includes Wall sub-district, and comprises 46,184 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £3,349. Pop. in 1851, 6,167; in 1861, 6,289. Houses, 1,228. Marriages in 1863, 35; births, 184,-of which 18 were illegitimate; deaths, 81,-of which 19 were at ages under 5 years, and 8 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 326; births, 1,678; deaths, 1,122. The places of worship, in 1851, were 17 of the Church of England, with 3,118 sittings; 1 of Wesleyans, with 85 s.; and 7 of Primitive Methodists, with 315 s. The schools were 5 public day-schools, with 335 scholars; 6 private day-schools, with 94 s.; and 2 Sunday schools, with 54 s.


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

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Feature Description: "a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Shropshire AncC
Place: Church Stretton

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