Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ASH

ASH, a chapelry in whitchurch parish, Salop; 2¼ miles SE of Whitchurch r. station. It includes the townships of Ash-Magna and Ash-Parva; contains the residences of Ash House and Ash Grove; and has a post office under Whitchurch. Pop., 545. Houses, 110. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £145.* Patron, the Rector of Whitchurch.


(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: Whitchurch Parish       Shropshire Ancient County
Place: Ash

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