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"STOKE ST. MILBOROUGH, a parish in the lower division of Munslow hundred, county Salop, 6½ miles N.E. of Ludlow, its post town, and 13 from Wenlock. It comprises the townships of Clee Downton, Clee Stanton, and the chapelry of Heath. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture. The soil is of various qualities. The living is a vicarage with the curacy of Heath annexed, in the diocese of Hereford, value £474. The church, dedicated to St. Milburgh, has a tower and four bells. It is situated in a dell, and is said to have been originally built by Milburgh, daughter of Merwald, King of Mercia, and has been recently restored. The parochial charities produce about £3 per annum, which go to a school. There is a chapel-of-ease at Heath, also a National school for both sexes. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have chapels."[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2015]

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St Milburgh, Stoke St Milborough, Church of England
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Gazetteers

Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2015

  • " BLACKFORD, a hamlet in the parish of Stoke St. Milborough, hundred of Munslow, in the county of Salop, 7 miles to the N.E. of Ludlow."
  • " CLEE DOWNTON, (and Clee Stanton) villages in the parish of Stoke St. Milborough, in the county of Salop, 5 miles N.E. of Ludlow. They take their name from the Clee Hills, which are amongst the highest in Shropshire, abounding in coal, ironstone, clunch, and other minerals, overlaid by a stratum of basalt.
  • " HEATH, a chapelry in the parish of Stoke St. Milborough, lower division of the hundred of Munslow, county Salop, 7 miles N.E. of Ludlow. It includes the hamlet of Norncott. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Stoke St. Milborough, in the diocese of Hereford."
  • " NORNCOTT, a hamlet in the chapelry of Heath, and parish of Stoke St. Milborough, county Salop, 6 miles N. by E. of Ludlow."
  • " THE MOOR, a village in the parish of Stoke St. Milborough, county Salop, 5 miles N.E. of Ludlow.
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