Heath Shropshire Family History Guide

Heath is a chapelry of Stoke St Milborough Ancient Parish in Shropshire.

Other places in the parish include: Norncott.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: See Stoke St Milborough
• Bishop’s Transcripts:

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Diddlebury
• Cold Weston
• Holdgate
• Abdon
• Tugford
• Clee St Margaret

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

Heath, a township in Stoke-St. Milborough parish, Salop; 7½ miles NNE of Ludlow. It contains Norncott hamlet; and forms a chapelry annexed to the vicarage of Stoke-St. Milborough. Pop., 38. Houses, 8.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Heath, a chapelry in the parish of Stoke-St.-Milborough, county of Salop. Acres 390. Houses 8. Pop., in 1821, 41 ; in 1831, 42. Poor rates, in 1838, £14 16s.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

HEATH, a chapelry, in the parish of Stoke-St. Milborough, union of Ludlow, hundred of Munslow, S. division of Salop, 9 miles (N. E. by N.) from Ludlow; containing 63 inhabitants.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Shropshire Gazetteer 1824

Heath. A township in the parish of Stoke St. Milborough, and in the hundred of Munslow, a chapel to Stoke St. Milborough. 7 houses, 41 inhabitants. 7 ½ miles north-east of Ludlow.

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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Census returns for Heath, 1841-1891

Poll Books

Heath, Shropshire Poll Book 1865

Below are the names of those that voted in the election of July 1865 between Col. The Hon. P. E. Herbert, Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bart., and R. Jasper More, Esq.

Poll Book of the Election, July 1865 for the Southern Division of Shropshire.

Ludlow Polling District

Heath, Chapelry of

2413 Edwards Richard, see 1904

2414 Hanson Edwin

2415 Miles Samuel

2416 Morgan The Rev. George, see 4161

2417 Mellichope Thomas

2418 Price Edward

2419 Swain James

Administration

• County: Shropshire
• Civil Registration District: Ludlow
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Hereford
• Rural Deanery: Ludlow
• Poor Law Union: Ludlow
• Hundred: Munslow
• Province: Canterbury