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CARDINGTON, a village and a parish in ChurchStretton district, Salop. The village stands on a pleasant spot, under Cardington hill, 2½ miles E of the Shrewsbury and Hereford railway, and 4 ENE of Church-Stretton; and has a post office under Church-Stretton. The parish includes also the townships of Broom, Chatwall, Comley, Enchmarsh, Holt-Preen, Lydley-Hayes, Plaish, Willstone, and part of Gretton. Acres, 6,713. Real property, £4,723. Pop., 768. Houses, 141. The property is much subdivided. Fine clay and quartz for the potteries are found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £287.* Patron, R. Hunt, Esq. The church is good. A school has £25 from endowment; and other charities, £53.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Cardington Parish Shropshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Cardington |
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