Tilstock Shropshire Family History Guide

Tilstock is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Shropshire, created in 1718 from a chapelry in Whitchurch Ancient Parish.

Parish church: St. Giles

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1836
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1836

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TILSTOCK, a chapelry in Whitchurch and Prees parishes, Salop; 2½ miles S of Whitchurch r. station. It has a post-office under Whitchurch. Pop., 656. Houses, 141. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150. Patron, the Rector of Whitchurch. 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

TILSTOCK; a chapelry, in the parish of Whitchurch, Whitchurch division of the hundred of North Bradford, N. division of Salop, 2½ miles (S.) from Whitchurch; containing 637 inhabitants. It is situated on the road from Shrewsbury to Chester, and is about 3 miles long, and l½ broad. Whitchurch heath, comprehended within its limits, is a fine open common, crossed by the road. The soil is in general rich and gravelly, and the Ellesmere and Chester canal passes through the chapelry. The living is a perpetual curacy, with a net income of £87, in the patronage of the Trustees of the Earl of Bridgewater: a glebe-house has been built, and the glebe contains 125 acres. The present chapel, dedicated to St. Giles, was built in 1834, by a bequest from Francis, Earl of Bridgewater, who was rector of Whitchurch. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Independents; and a national school has been erected upon the site of the former chapel, which was remarkable for its antiquity, and was surrounded by very fine old yew-trees.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848