Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COLEHAM

COLEHAM, a chapelry in St. Julian-Shrewsbury parish, Salop; within Shrewsbury borough, ½ a mile S of Shrewsbury. It was constituted in 1840. Pop., 2, 773. Houses,-595. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £123. Patron, the Earl of Tankerville.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Shropshire Ancient County
Place: Coleham

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