Churchstoke Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Family History Guide
St Nicholas Church Churchstoke
Churchstoke is an Ancient Parish partly in Shropshire and partly in Montgomeryshire.
Other places in the parish include: Bacheldre, Lower Hopton, Upper Hopton, Weston-Madoc, Hurdley, and Mellington in Montgomery, and the townships of Brompton and Rhiston in Salop.
Parish church: Originally dedicated to St. Mary, now dedicated to St. Nicholas.
Parish registers begin: 1558
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist and Primitive Methodist.
Parishes adjacent to Churchstoke
- Chirbury
- Bacheldre
- Mellington
- Caeliber Isaf
- Weston Madoc
- Montgomery
Historical Descriptions
Churchstoke
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHURCH-STOKE, a township in the district and county of Montgomery; and a parish in the district of Montgomery, and counties of Montgomery and Salop. The township lies on Offa’s dyke and the river Camlet-near the Oswestry and Newtown railway, 3¼ miles SE of Montgomery; and has a post office under Shrewsbury. Acres, 1,560. Real property, £1,939. Pop., 1,369. Houses, 283. The parish contains also the townships of Bacheldre, Lower Hopton, Upper Hopton, Weston-Madoc, Hurdley, and Mellington in Montgomery, and the townships of Brompton and Rhiston in Salop. Acres, 10,547. Real property, £9,314. Pop., 1,545. Houses, 314. The property is much subdivided. Lead ore is found. Traces of British and Roman camps appear. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £151. Patron, the Earl of Powis. The church is good. Charities, £13.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Churchstoke, 4 miles S.E. Montgomery. P. 1527
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
THE SHROPSHIRE GAZETTEER 1824
Church Stoke. A parish partly in Caurse hundred, in the county of Montgomery, partly in Montgomery hundred, county of Montgomery, partly in the lower division of the hundred of Chirbury. The whole of the parish contains 1,338 inhabitants. The Shropshire part contains 34 houses, 197 inhabitants. 5 ½ miles north-west of Bishopscastle.
Source: The Shropshire Gazetteer, with an Appendix, including a Survey of the County and Valuable Miscellaneous Information, with Plates. Printed and Published by T. Gregory, Wem, 1824
Brompton
A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833
Brompton, co. Salop.
P. T. Montgomery (108) 3m. Pop. 197.
A township with Reston [sic], in the parish of Church Stoke and hundred of Chorbury.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. I; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.
THE SHROPSHIRE GAZETTEER 1824
Brompton. A township in the parish of Church Stoke, and in the upper division of the hundred of Chirbury. 6 ½ miles north-west of Bishopscastle.
Source: The Shropshire Gazetteer, with an Appendix, including a Survey of the County and Valuable Miscellaneous Information, with Plates. Printed and Published by T. Gregory, Wem, 1824
Riston
THE SHROPSHIRE GAZETTEER 1824
Riston. A township in the parish of Church Stoke, and in the upper division of the hundred of Chirbury. 6 miles north-west of Bishopscastle.
Source: The Shropshire Gazetteer, with an Appendix, including a Survey of the County and Valuable Miscellaneous Information, with Plates. Printed and Published by T. Gregory, Wem, 1824
Parish Records
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Poll Books
Brompton and Rhiston Poll Book of the Election, July 1865
Directories
Brompton and Rhiston Cassey Shropshire Directory 1871
Administration
- County: Shropshire
- Civil Registration District: Montgomery
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Hereford
- Rural Deanery: Pontesbury
- Poor Law Union: Montgomery
- Hundred: Chirbury
- Province: Canterbury