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STANTON UPON HINE HEATH: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

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"STANTON UPON HINE HEATH, a parish in the Whitchurch division of the hundred of BRADFORD (North), county of SALOP, comprising the townships of Booley, Harcourt, High Hatton, Moston, and Stanton, and containing 700 inhabitants, of which number, 273 are in the township of Stanton, 5 miles (S.E. by E.) from Wem. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £5. 10. 10., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. The Rev. R. Hill was patron in 1819. Th church is dedicated to St. Andrew."

" BOOLEY, a township in the parish of STANTON UPON HINE HEATH, Whitchurch division of the hundred of BRADFORD (North), county of SALOP, containing 134 inhabitants."

" HARCOURT, a township in the parish of STANTON UPON HINE HEATH, Whitchurch division of the hundred of BRADFORD (North), county of SALOP, containing 34 inhabitants."

" HIGH HATTON, a township in the parish of STANTON UPON HINE HEATH, Whitchurch division of the hundred of BRADFORD (North), county of SALOP, 7 miles (E.S.E.) from Wem, containing 193 inhabitants."

" MOSTON, a township in the parish of STANTON UPON HINE HEATH, Whitchurch division of the hundred of BRADFORD (North), county of SALOP, containing 66 inhabitants."

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

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