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STOKE UPON TERN: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

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"STOKE UPON TERN, a parish in the Drayton division of the hundred of BRADFORD (North), county of SALOP, comprising the townships of Eaton, Ollerton, Stoke, and Westanswick, and containing 985 inhabitants, of which number, 541 are in the township of Stoke, 6 miles (S. W. by S.) from Drayton in Hales. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £20, and in the patronage of- Corbet, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, contains a handsome monument of alabaster to the memory of Sir Reginald Corbet, a judge of the Common Pleas in the reign of Elizabeth. The ancient mansion-house of the Corbets has been demolished, and a farm-house erected upon its site."

" EATON, a township in the parish of STOKE UPON TERN, Drayton division of the hundred of BRADFORD (North), county of SALOP, 6 miles (N.W.) from Newport, containing 123 inhabitants."

" OLLERTON, a township in the parish of STOKE upon TERN, Drayton division of the hundred of BRADFORD (North), county of SALOP, 7 miles (N. W.by W,) from Newport, containing 133 inhabitants."

" WESTANSWICK, a township in the parish of STOKE UPON TERN, Drayton division of the hundred of BRADFORTH (North), county of Salop, containing 188 inhabitants."

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

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