Sutton Maddock, Shropshire Family History Guide

Status: Ancient Parish

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1559
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1673

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Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SUTTON-MADDOCK, a parish in Shiffnal district, Salop; near the river Severn, 1½ mile ESE of Coalport r. station. Post town, Shiffnal. Acres, 2,662. Real property, £4,824. Pop., 420. Houses, 75. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Kemberton. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

SUTTON-MADDOCK (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Shiffnall, Shiffnall division of the hundred of Brimstree, S. division of Salop, 6 miles (N.) from Bridgnorth; containing 352 inhabitants. The Severn bounds the parish on the west, and the Shropshire canal forms a junction with that river in the vicinity. The living is a discharged vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Kemberton, and valued in the king’s books at £5: the impropriate tithes have been commuted for £ 145. 11.; and the vicarial for £220, with a glebe of 18¾ acres.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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Administration

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