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"BILLINGSLEY, a parish in the hundred of Stottesdon, in the county of Salop, 5 miles to the S. of Bridgnorth, its post town. The surrounding district abounds in coal and iron. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford, value £195, in the patronage of the Duke of Cleveland. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. This village was the birthplace, in 1636, of Dr. Thomas Hyde, the Orientalist and Oxford professor, who took part in the preparation of Walton's Polyglot."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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