Boraston, Shropshire Family History Guide
Boraston is a chapelry of Burford Ancient Parish in Shropshire.
Alternative names: Buraston-with-Whetmore, Buraston and Boreaston
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: None
Nonconformists include: None
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Parish History
Buraston-with-Whetmore Shropshire The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Buraston-with-Whetmore, a township in the parish of Burford, hund. of Overs, county of Salop; 2 miles north-east of Tenbury, in the vicinity of the Leominster canal. A chapel-of-ease has been erected here. Pop., in 1801, 291; in 1821, 226. Houses and acres with the parish. A. P. £1,587. Poor rates, in 1837, £98.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851
Buraston with Whetmore Shropshire Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845
Buraston, with Whetmore, a chapelry, in the parish of Burford, union of Tenbury, hundred of Overs, S. division of Salop, 1¾ mile (N. E.) from Tenbury; containing 223 inhabitants. The Kington canal passes on the southern side of the village.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.
Buraston or Boreaston Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Buraston; or Boreaston. A township in the parish of Burford, and in the hundred of Overs. 7 miles south-west of Ludlow. Buraston and Whetmore townships contain 46 houses, 226 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.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Poll Books
Boraston and Whatmore, 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.
Cleobury Mortimer Polling District
Boraston and Whatmore — Townships of
1415 Amies Samuel
1416 Arthur John
1417 Lucas Benjamin
1418 MacLoughlin Rev. Hubert
1419 Meakin Richard
1420 Millichamp John
1421 Mytton William
1422 Mytton James
1423 Mytton Thomas
1424 Reynolds William
1425 Smith John
1426 Stiff William Phillimore, see 503, 861
1427 Wood William
Administration
- County: Shropshire
- Civil Registration District: Tenbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Hereford
- Rural Deanery: Burford
- Poor Law Union: Tenbury
- Hundred: Overs
- Province: Canterbury