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LILLESHALL: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

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"LILLESHALL, a parish in the Newport division of the hundred of BRADFORD (South), county of SALOP, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from Newport, containing 3143 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £6. 17. 11., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Marquis of Stafford. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. About 1145, an abbey, for regular canons of the order of St. Augustine, was founded here; at the dissolution the revenue was valued at £327. 10. A branch of the Donnington Wood, or Marquis of Stafford's, canal terminates in the northern part of this parish."

" DONNINGTON WOOD, a chapelry in the parish of LILLESHALL, Newport division of the hundred of BRADFORD (South), county of SALOP, 3 miles (B.N.E.) from Wellington. The population is returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Marquis of Stafford. The chapel is dedicated to St. George. There is a place of worship for Baptists."

[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831](unless otherwise stated)

[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2015]