Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STOKE-UPON-TERN

STOKE-UPON-TERN, a parish, with four townships, in Market-Drayton district, Salop; near the Market-Drayton and Wellington railway, 5 miles SW by S of Market-Drayton. Post town, Market-Drayton. Acres, 5,602. Rated property, £6,545. Pop., 961. Houses, 203. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £878.* Patron, R. Corbet, Esq. The church is ancient but good.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish, with four townships"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Stoke upon Tern Parish       Market Drayton Poor Law Union/Registration District       Shropshire Ancient County
Place: Stoke upon Tern

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