Lee Brockhurst, Shropshire Family History Guide

Status: Ecclesiastical Parish

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1566
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1630

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Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LEE-BROCKHURST, a parish, with a village, in Wem district, Salop; on the river Roden, 2½ miles SE by E of Wem r. station. Post town, Wem, under Shrewsbury. Acres, 664. Real property, £1,161. Pop., 133. Houses, 31. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Viscount Hill. Sandstone for building is quarried. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £60. Patron, J. Walford, Esq. The church is ancient but good, and has a bellturret.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Shropshire Gazetteer 1824

Lee Brockhurst. A parish in the Whitchurch division of the hundred of Bradford, North, a curacy, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, the deanery of Salop, and archdeaconry of Salop. 2 ½ miles south-east of Wem. 27 houses, 162 inhabitants.
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

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Administration

County: Shropshire
Civil Registration District: Wem
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
Diocese: Lichfield
Rural Deanery: Wem
Poor Law Union: Wem
Hundred: North Bradford
Province: Canterbury