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"BLODWELL. See LLAN YBLODWELL, county of SALOP."

" BOSCOBEL, a district (extra-parochial), in the Hales- Owen division of the hundred of BRIMSTREE, county of SALOP, 7 miles (E.) from ShifFnall, containing 30 inhabitants. Boscobel House is celebrated in history as the place where Charles II. concealed himself in September, 1651, after the disastrous battle of Worcester, secure in the incorruptible integrity of five brothers, named Penderell: the house has been considerably modernised, but the place of concealment, called the Sacred Hole, is carefully preserved, and in front of the house is a Latin inscription, traced with white pebbles in the pavement, recording the circumstance. The Royal Oak, thought to have sprung from an acorn of the parent tree, among the branches of which the unfortunate monarch retired for greater security, when his .pursuers were searching the house and out-buildings, stands near the middle of a large field adjoining the garden; it is surrounded by an iron railing, and has an inscribed brass plate affixed to it."

" CARWOOD. See SIBDONCARWOOD, county of SALOP."

" HAGHMON ABBEY (or HAUGHMOND ABBEY), a liberty (extraparochial), in the Wellington division of the hundred of BRADFORD (South), county of SALOP, 4 miles (N.E.) from Shrewsbury. In 1110, William Fitz-Alan, of Clun, founded an abbey here for canons regular of the order of St. Augustine, and dedicated it to St. John the Apostle and Evangelist, the revenue of which, at the dissolution, amounted to £294. 12. 9. It forms part of the demesne of Sundorn: the remains consist of the chapter-house, which is entire, the south doorway of the nave of the church, and a range of building supposed to have been the abbot's lodging and hall, partly in the Norman, but chiefly in the early, style of English architecture. The Rev. William Clarke, Chancellor in the Cathedral Church of Chichester, and an antiquary of no mean repute, was born at this place in 1696."

" HALSTON, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the hundred of OSWESTRY, county of SALOP, 3 miles (E.N.E.) from Oswestry, containing 39 inhabitants. There is a domestic chapel belonging to John Mytton, Esq., who appoints the minister. The Ellesmere canal touches on the boundary of the liberty, which is crossed by a small stream called the Perry; this, by a diversion of its channel, has been made to resemble a large river, called Halston Pool, covering about forty acres. The Knights Templars had a preceptory here, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, which subsequently belonged to the hospitallers, and was valued, in the 26th of Henry.VIII., at £160. 14. 10. per annum; in the reign of Mary it was re-granted to the order of St. John of Jerusalem, and in that of her successor Elizabeth it was possessed by "William Home."

" HORDERLEY, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the hundred of PURSLOW, county of SALOP, 6 mile's (E. by S.) from Bishop's Castle, containing about 150 inhabitants."

" KYNNERSLEY. See KINNERSLEY, county of SALOP."

" POSENHALL, a district (extra-parochial), within the liberty of WENLOCK, county of SALOP, 1 mile (W.) from Broseley, containing 14 inhabitants."

" SHINETON. See SHEINTON, county of SALOP."

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

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