Fitz is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire.
Other places included in the parish: Grafton, Mytton
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1559
Nonconformists include:
Parishes adjacent to Fitz
- Montford
- Shrewsbury St Mary
- Little Ness
- Baschurch
- Preston Gobalds
- Shrewsbury St Chad
- Bicton
Historical Descriptions
Fitz
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
FITZ, a parish in Atcham district, Salop; on the rivers Perry and Severn, and on the Shrewsbury and Oswestry railway, 4 miles NW of Shrewsbury. Post town, Bicton Heath, under Shrewsbury. Acres, 1,512. Real property, £3,077. Pop., 323. Houses, 53. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £272. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Fitz. A parish in the Baschurch division of the hundred of Pimhill, a rectory discharged, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, the deanery of Salop, and archdeaconry of Salop. 5 miles north-west of Shrewsbury.
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
Grafton
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Grafton, a hamlet in Fitz parish, Salop; on the river Perry, 5 ½ miles NW of Shrewsbury.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Grafton. A township in the parish of Fitz, and in the Baschurch division of the hundred of Pimhill. 5 ½ miles north-west of Shrewsbury.
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
Fitz Parish Registers 1559-1812
Shropshire Parish Registers Diocese of Lichfield Vol. IV (1903)
Author: Shropshire Parish Register Society
General editor; 1900-1906, W.P.W. Phillimore; 1907- W.G.D. Fletcher
Publisher: Privately printed for the Shropshire Parish Register Society
Fitz Parish Registers 1559-1812 – Archive.org
Directories
Fitz Cassey Shropshire Directory 1871
Administration
- County: Shropshire
- Civil Registration District: Atcham
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Shrewsbury
- Poor Law Union: Atcham
- Hundred: Albrighton Division
- Province: Canterbury
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