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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Coleham like this:
COLEHAM, a chapelry in St. Julian-Shrewsbury parish, Salop; within Shrewsbury borough, ½ a mile S of Shrewsbury. It was constituted in 1840. Pop., 2, 773. Houses,-595. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £123. Patron, the Earl of Tankerville.
Coleham is now part of SHROPSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SHROPSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Coleham itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Coleham in Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24343
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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