Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STANTON-UPON-HINE-HEATH

STANTON-UPON-HINE-HEATH, a parish, with five townships, in Wem district, Salop; on the river Roden, 5 miles SE of Wem r. station. It has a post-office under Shrewsbury. Acres, 5,560. Real property, £6,952. Pop., 648. Houses, 133. The property is divided among three. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £200. Patron, Viscount Hill. The church is ancient but good. There are a slightly endowed school, and charities £14.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish, with five townships"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Stanton upon Hine Heath Parish       Wem Poor Law Union/Registration District       Shropshire Ancient County
Place: Stanton upon Hine Heath

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