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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Dorrington like this:
DORRINGTON, a chapelry, with a village, in Condover parish, Salop; on an affluent of the river Severn, and on the Shrewsbury and Hereford railway, 6¼ miles S of Shrewsbury. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Shrewsbury. The chapelry was constituted in 1845. Pop., 382. Houses, 72. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £127.* Patron, T. H. H. Edwards, Esq. The church is recent; and there is an Independent chapel.
Dorrington is now part of SHROPSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SHROPSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Dorrington itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Dorrington in Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24018
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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