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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sambrook like this:
SAMBROOK, two townships and a chapelry on the N E border of Salop; averagely 5 miles N N W of Newport r. station. The townships are in respectively Chetwynd and Cheswardine parishes; and the chapelry includes also part of Edgmond parish, and was constituted in 1856. Post-town, Newport, Salop. Rated property, £3, 941. Pop., 552. Houses, 113. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £165.* Patron, J.B. Borough, Esq. The church is good.
Sambrook is now part of TELFORD AND WREKIN Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how TELFORD AND WREKIN has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Sambrook itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sambrook, in Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23946
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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