Names for administrative units:

These names were used for units associated with Telford. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:

Name Unit Type Source
00GF District/Unitary Authority (UA) Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
DAWLEY New Town London Gazette, No. 42898, p. 589, 18 January 1963; Dawley New Town (Designation) Order, 1963.
SALOP THE WREKIN Constituency (PDivCon) Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
SHROPSHIRE THE WREKIN Constituency (PDivCon) Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
Constituency (CCon) Boundary Commission for England, First Periodical Report (London: H.M.S.O., 1954)
SHROPSHIRE WREKIN Constituency (PDivCon) Boundary Commission for England & Wales, Report of the Boundary Commission (England and Wales) (London: H.M.S.O., 1917)
TELFORD Constituency (BCon) Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
New Town London Gazette, no. 44735, p. 13433, 13 December 1968.; Dawley New Town (Designation) Amendment (Telford) Order, 1968
TELFORD AND WREKIN District/Unitary Authority (UA) Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
TELFORD SEVERN GORGE Rural Deanery F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 864.
THE WREKIN Constituency (CCon) Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
WREKIN THE Constituency (CCon)

NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Telford, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:

  • For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name of the city followed by a saint's dedication, with just the saint's name as another variant. Parish names will sometimes also include "places" within towns.
  • Districts usually contain more than one settlement, and some districts had their names changed to take the name of a completely different settlement. As we link each administrative unit to just one of our "places", usually the last place the unit was named after, in these cases the name for a completely different place will appear on this page.
  • Similarly, a unit may sometimes be named after a particular settlement it contains and sometimes to indicate its location within a higher level unit. This was very common among British parliamentary constituencies in rural areas, one name referring to their main town and another indicating that they were in, say, the southern part of the relevant county.

Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Telford, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Telford, in Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/17231/names

Date accessed: 29th March 2024