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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Nesscliffe like this:
NESS-CLIFF, a township in Great Ness parish, Salop; on the Potteries, Shrewsbury, and North Wales railway, 11¼ miles W N W of Shrewsbury. It has a station on the railway . A rocky cliff is here, and givesname to the township. There was formerly a chapel ofease, on a site now occupied by a parochial school.
Nesscliffe is now part of SHROPSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SHROPSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Nesscliffe itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Nesscliffe in Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25320
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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