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"MEOLE-BRACE, (or Brace-Meole), a parish in the borough of Shrewsbury, and hundred of Condover, county Salop, 1½ mile S. of Shrewsbury, its post town. The parish includes the townships of Hokoe-Gate, Nobold, Newton, and Edgebold. Sharpstone hills, Bomere Pool, and Lyth Hill, are spots a mile distant from the village, and noted for their scenery. The stream which flows through the village abounds in trout. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Hereford, value £425. The church is a small modern structure with a tower containing one bell. The charities consist of almshouses for nine poor widows. The Kingsland lunatic asylum and the Shrewsbury union poorhouse are in this parish. John Bather, Esq., is lord of the manor. Meole Hall is the principal residence, and in the grounds of which are traces of Meole Castle." "BRACE-MEOLE, a parish in the Condover division of the hundred of Condover, in the county of Salop, 1 mile to the S. of Shrewsbury. It forms part of the borough of Shrewsbury, and includes the townships of Newton and Nobold, with part of Pulley. In this parish is the Shrewsbury poorhouse. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford, of the value of £361, in the patronage of the Rev. E. Bather, vicar. The church is dedicated to All Saints." "EDGBOLD, a township united with Newton, in the parish of Meole Brace, county Salop, 3 miles S. of Shrewsbury." "NEWTON WITH EDGBOLD, a township in the parish of Meole-Brace, county Salop, 6 miles N. of Shrewsbury." "NOBOLD, a township in the parish of Meole-Brace, county Salop, 2 miles S. of Shrewsbury." "PULLEY, a township in the parishes of St. Julian and Brace Meole, county Salop, 2 miles S.W. of Shrewsbury."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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