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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Snead like this:
SNEAD, a parish in the district of Clun and county of Montgomery; 2 miles NNW of Bishops-Castle r. station. Post town, Bishops-Castle, Shropshire. Acres, 644. Real property, £742. Pop., 59. Houses, 10. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory, annexed to Hyssington. The church is bad.
Snead is now part of POWYS District. Click here for graphs and data of how POWYS has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Snead itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Snead, in Powys and Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10491
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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