In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Neen Sollars like this:
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.
Neen Sollars through time
Neen Sollars is now part of South Shropshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Shropshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Neen Sollars itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Neen Sollars in South Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10434
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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