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HORSEHAY, a hamlet in the E of Salop; on the Wellington and Severn Junction railway, 3¼ miles SE of Wellington. It has a station on the railway, and a postoffice under Wellington, Salop. W. Ball, born here in 1795, weighed upwards of 40 stone in 1850, and was then 6 feet 3 inches in girth, and 5 feet 9 inches high.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Shropshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Horsehay |
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