Wombridge, Shropshire Family History Guide
Wombridge is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire.
Other places in the parish include: Oakengates.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1721
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Wombridge
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WOMBRIDGE, a parish and a sub-district in Wellington district, Salop. The parish lies on Watling-street, and on the Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton railway, near Oakengates r. station, and 2½ miles E of Wellington; and includes part of Oakengates chapelry, which has a post-office under Wellington, Salop. Acres, 698. Real property, £6,699; of which £3,900 are in iron-works, and £25 in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 2,166; in 1861, 2,601. Houses, 455. The increase of pop. arose from extension of iron-works, and from facilities for purchasing land for building purposes. The manor belongs to the Duke of Sutherland and St. J. Charlton, Esq. Extensive iron-works and colliery works are at Ketley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £133. Patron, St. J. Charlton, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1760, and recently enlarged. The vicarage of Oakengates is a separate benefice. There are a Wesleyan chapel and national schools. The sub-district contains three parishes and a part. Acres, 3,295. Pop., 6,597. Houses, 1,193.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Oaken Gates
Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Oaken Gates. A township in the hundred of Bradford, South.
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
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Bagshaw History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire 1851
WOMBRIDGE, a parish and small village two miles east from Wellington, containing most of the populous district of Oakengates within its bounds. The parish contains 790 acres, and in 1801 had 1835 inhabitants, 1831, 1855, and in 1841 there were 406 houses and a population of 2057 souls. Rateable value £2,395. The village is situated at the junction of the Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and Marquis of Stafford’s Canals, and intersected by the Watling street and the various railways connected with the extensive coal and iron works in the immediate vicinity. There are some slight remains in the garden of Mr. Shepherd of a Priory that was founded here by William Fitz-Alan, for canons of the order of St. Austin. It was endowed by Henry II. with the church of St. Sutton; Hugh, Bishop of Coventry, confirmed the grant of Sutton, together with the grant of the chapel at Uppington, the gift of Roger de Mussun, on condition that the canons should present their chaplains to the bishop and his successors to receive at his and their hands, institution and induction for that church and chapel. The canons were to allow their chaplains a competent maintenance, and the residue of the profits was to be employed in charitable uses. There were various other benefactors to this priory, among whom were the lords of Cherrington, who gave the revenues of certain lands in that township to it. The various possessions of those canons with divers liberties granted by their several benefactors, were confirmed by King Edward II. The revenues at the general dissolution of religious houses were valued at £65. 7s. 4d. The Church is a brick structure, dedicated to St. Mary and St. Leonard, and consists of nave and transepts, with a short tower. It was enlarged and galleries added in 1823, when upwards of 300 sittings were thereby obtained, of which 295 were declared free and unappropriated, and are in addition to 100 free sittings formerly provided. There is a small organ at the west end. This church stands on the site of a former structure, which was blown down by a storm which happened in the spring of the year 1756. The living is a perpetual curacy, returned at £86. The Rev. John Dawson is the officiating minister.
Source: History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire by Samuel Bagshaw 1851
Administration
- County: Shropshire
- Civil Registration District: Wellington (Shropshire)
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Wombridge Abbey
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Newport
- Poor Law Union: Wellington
- Hundred: South Bradford
- Province: Canterbury