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BRACE-MEOLE, a parish in Shrewsbury district, Salop; on the Shrewsbury and Hereford railway, 1 mile S of Shrewsbury. It is partly within Shrewsbury borough; includes the townships of Newton and Edgbold, Nobold, and part of Pulley; and contains the Shrewsbury workhouse and the Kingsland lunatic asylum. Post Town, Shrewsbury. Pop., 1,215. Houses, 260. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £425.* Patron, J. Bather, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1869, at a cost of £.4,500.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Meole Brace Parish Shrewsbury Poor Law Union/Registration District Shropshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Meole Brace |
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