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NEEN-SOLLARS, a parish in Cleobury-Mortimer district, Salop; on the river Rea, the Kington canal, and the Tenbury and Bewdley railway, at the boundary with Worcester, 3 miles S S W of Cleobury-Mortimer. It has a station on the railway; and its post town is Cleobury-Mortimer, under Bewdley. Acres, 1, 779. Real property, £2,051. Pop., 189. Houses, 36. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to Col. Rush-out. The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Milson, in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £360.* Patron, Worcester College, Oxford. The church is ancient and cruciform; has a tower, with a wooden spire; contains the tomb of the traveller Conyngsby; and was reported in 1859 as very bad. There is a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Neen Sollars CP/AP Cleobury Mortimer RegD/PLU Shropshire AncC |
Place: | Neen Sollars |
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