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BISHOP'S CASTLE, Shropshire

"BISHOP'S CASTLE, a parish, market town, and municipal borough, in the Bishop's Castle division of the hundred of Purslow, in the county of Salop, 18 miles to the S.W. of Shrewsbury, and 159 miles to the N.W. of London. It lies near the border of Wales, not far from a branch of the river Clun, and was formerly the site of a castle, the seat of the bishops of Hereford, from which it derives its name. The parish contains the townships of Broughton, Colebatch, Lee, with Oakley and Woodbatch."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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• The transcription of the section for Bishops Castle from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

[Original page by Brian Pears 21 Mar 2003 (Gaz3 v01.19)]

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