Alveley Shropshire Family History Guide

Alveley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire.

Alveley parish includes the liberty of Romsley, and the townships of Alam Bridge or Allom Bridge, Cotton and Kingsnordley, Nordley Regis, King’s Nordley or Nordley.

Parish Church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin: 1561

Nonconformists included in Alveley: Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Alveley

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ALVELEY, a township and a parish in Bridgnorth district, Salop. The township lies on the river Severn, adjacent to the Severn Valley railway, near Higley r. station, 8 miles NNW of Kidderminster; and has a post. office under Bridgnorth. Pop., 882. Houses, 194. The parish includes also the township of Nordley-Regis and the liberty of Romsley. Acres, 6,788. Real property, £8,423. Pop., 1,018. Houses, 225. The property is much subdivided. Lead ore occurs. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £103. Patron, Mrs. Wakeman. The church had a chantry. A school has £26 a year from endowment, and other charities £97.

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

Alveley, a parish and township, partly in the hund. of Stottesden, and partly in the borough of Bridgenorth, union of Bridgenorth, county of Salop; on the eastern bank of the Severn; 6 miles south east of Bridgenorth. It includes the liberty of Romsley, and the township of Nordley-Regis. Living, a perpetual curacy under the jurisdiction of the peculiar court of Bridgenorth; rated at £65 per annum in the parliamentary returns; gross income £82. Patron, in 1835, John Wingfield, Esq., who appoints an official and registrar. There are three daily schools here: one a free school, endowed by John Grove in 1615; master’s salary £22 12s. John Grove also bequeathed yearly stipends to five old men of the parish. The entire income of both these churches is £73. The other charities connected with the parish yield £56 yearly. Pop., in 1801, 791 ; in 1831, 949. Houses 193. Acres 7,640. A. P. £5,618. Poor rates of the township, in 1837, £485.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England And Wales 1850

Alveley with Nordley-Regis, 6 m S.S.E. Bridgenorth. P. 1062

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ALVELEY (St. Mary), a parish, partly within the liberty of the borough of Bridgnorth, but chiefly in the hundred of Stottesden, union of Bridgnorth, S. division of Salop, 6½ miles (S. S. E.) from Bridgnorth; containing, with Nordley-Regis township, and Romsley liberty in the borough of Bridgnorth, 1062 inhabitants. It comprises 6435 acres, including Romsley, which contributes one-third towards the churchrate, but is independent of the parish in other respects: the road from Shrewsbury to Cheltenham passes through it, and the river Severn is its boundary on one side. There are some works for the manufacture of iron, and several quarries, the stone of which is used for building, and made into wheels for mills and manufactures. Alveley was one of the five prebends in the royal free chapel of the castle of Bridgnorth, valued, in the reign of Henry III., at sixty marks, and is still reputed and rated as such in the Office of the First Fruits. The living is a perpetual curacy, recently endowed with £300, the donations of various persons, which were placed in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, by whom, in consideration thereof, the net income, previously £90, was augmented £17; patron and impropriator, Col. Gatacre. The church is a fine edifice, a mixture of Norman and early English architecture, with a curious old painted window in the clerestory, supposed to have been built in the time of the Tudors. In the south wall of the chancel, three fine early English sedilia and a piscina were recently discovered, in a mutilated state, by the incumbent; they were concealed by plaster: the patron has had them restored. There is a private chapel attached to Coton Hall, in the parish. A free school was endowed in 1616, by John Grove, to whom is a monument of brass on the floor of the chancel of the church, bearing the date 1616; the master resides in a house rent-free, and receives £20 per annum. Five “decayed labourers” receive £6 each, annually, from property bequeathed by the same individual. Thomas Grove, his son, also conveyed some land to trustees, for “the poorest of the poor people,” the proceeds to be distributed yearly.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824

Alvely. A curacy and parish in the exempt jurisdiction of the borough of Bridgnorth, – partly in the borough of Bridgnorth, partly in the Bridgnorth division of the hundred of Stottesden. 180 houses, 975 inhabitants. 7 miles south-east by south of Bridgnorth.