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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wollaston like this:
WOLLASTON, a chapelry in Alberbury parish, Salop; near Middletown r. station, and 10¾ miles W of Shrewsbury. Post town, Alberbury, under Shrewsbury. Real property, £2,482. Pop., 367. Houses, 73. The property is subdivided. There are quarries and lead mines. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £95. Patron, the Vicar of Alberbury. The church is tolerable.
Wollaston is now part of SHROPSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SHROPSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wollaston itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wollaston in Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10533
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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