Edgton, Shropshire Family History Guide
Edgton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Shropshire, created in 1722 from a chapelry in Clun with Chapel Lawn Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Edgton, Brunslow and Horderley and Brunslow.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1722
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
Edgton
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Edgton, a parish in Clun district, Salop; near the river Onny, 4 ½ miles SE of Bishops-Castle, and 4 ¾ W by S of Marsh-Brook r. station. Post-town, Aston-on-Clun, Salop. Acres, 1,832. Real property, £1,950. Pop., 186. Houses, 42. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Hereford. Value, not reported. Patron, H. Saudford, Esq. The church is old but good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Edgton. A parish in the Stow division of the hundred of Purslow, a curacy not in charge, in the diocese of Hereford, the deanery of Clun, and archdeaconry of Salop. 40 houses, 220 inhabitants. 4 ½ miles south-east 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
Brunslow
Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Brunslow or Brownslow. A township in the parish of Edgton, and in the Stow division of the hundred of Purslow. 3 ½ miles south-east 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
Hordesley
Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Hordesley. An extra-parochial place, next to the parish of Edgton, in the Stow division of the hundred of Purslow. Its population is reckoned to Edgton.
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 Registers
Edgton Parish Registers 1722-1812
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Poll Books
Edgton, 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.
Bishop’s Castle Polling District
Edgton, Parish of
210 Brereton Joseph
211 Brereton Edward
212 Brown John
213 Bull James, see 1358
214 Childe Thomas
215 Eyton Robert William
216 Lucas William
217 Lucas William
218 Owen John
219 Sandford Folliott, dead
220 Sandford Humphrey
221 Wood Thomas
Shropshire Historical Directories
Administration
- County: Shropshire
- Civil Registration District: Clun
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Hereford
- Rural Deanery: Clun
- Poor Law Union: Clun
- Hundred: Purslow
- Province: Canterbury