Upton Cressett, Shropshire Family History Guide
Upton Cressett is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire.
Parish church: St. Michael
Parish registers begin: 1813
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
UPTON-CRESSETT, a parish in Bridgnorth district, Salop; 4¼ miles W by S of Bridgnorth r. station. Post town, Bridgnorth. Acres, 1,603. Rated property, £531. Pop., 72. Houses, 10. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £191. Patron, the Rev. H. T. Pelham.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
UPTON-CRESSETT (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Bridgnorth, hundred of Stottesden, S. division of Salop, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Bridgnorth; containing 56 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £4. 15. 2½., and in the patronage of the representatives of the late J. C. Pelham, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £191. 7., and the glebe comprises 4 acres.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Poll Book
Poll Book 1865, Upton Cressett
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.
Bridgnorth Polling District
Upton Cressett, Parish of
886 Bishop Thomas
887 Burton Rev. Henry, see No. 3648
888 Bright Henry
889 Giles George
890 Howells Richard
891 Yardley William
Administration
- County: Shropshire
- Civil Registration District: Bridgnorth
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Hereford
- Rural Deanery: Stottesdon
- Poor Law Union: Bridgnorth
- Hundred: Stottesdon
- Province: Canterbury