Silvington, Shropshire Family History Guide

Silvington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire.

Parish church: St. Michael

Parish registers begin: 1716

Nonconformists include:

Parishes adjacent to Silvington

Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SILVINGTON, a parish in Cleobury-Mortimer district, Salop; 5½ miles NW of Cleobury-Mortimer r. station. Post town, Cleobury-Mortimer, under Bewdley. Acres, 493. Real property, £978. Pop., 47. Houses, 8. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £100. Patron, the Rev. G. Edmunds. The church is ancient.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Silvington (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Cleobury-Mortimer, hundred of Overs, S division of Salop, 6 miles (NW) from Cleobury-Mortimer; containing 46 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £3. 6. 8., and in the joint patronage of the family of Fowler and Theophilus Salwey, Esq.; net income, £100

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.

Directories

Silvington Cassey Shropshire Directory 1875

Silvington is a parish and village, 8 miles from Ludlow, and 5 from Cleobury Mortimer, in the Southern division of the county, Overs hundred, Cleobury Mortimer union, and diocese of Hereford. The church of St. Michael is an ancient Norman building. The living is a rectory; the tithes are commuted for £50 10s., with 106 acres of glebe land and a residence, in the gift of the Rev. George Edmonds. The Rev. George Edmonds is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is chiefly a poor loam, with clay subsoil. The area is 490 acres, and the population in 1861 was 47: gross estimated rental, £422; rateable value, £380.

Letters through Cleobury Mortimer.

Pritchard Rev. Charles William, M.A.

Boddey George, blacksmith

Green Thomas, farmer and overseer

Preene Thomas, miller

Shielding Joseph, farmer

Source: Edward Cassey & Co.’s History, Gazetteer, & Directory of Shropshire. Printed Shrewsbury 1875.

Poll Books

Silvington, 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

Silvington — Parish of

1663 Edmonds the Rev. George, see 3840

1664 Green Thomas

1665 Pritchard Charles William

1666 Skelding Joseph

Administration

  • County: Shropshire
  • Civil Registration District: Cleobury Mortimer
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Hereford
  • Rural Deanery: Ludlow
  • Poor Law Union: Cleobury Mortimer
  • Hundred: Overs
  • Province: Canterbury