WOMBRIDGE: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1824.

"WOMBRIDGE, a parish in the Wellington division of the hundred of Bradford South. A curacy, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, the deanery of Salop, and archdeaconry of Salop. 361 houses, 1,860 inhabitants, 3 miles east of Wellington. The depression of the iron trade in 1816 and 1817 lessened the population of Wombridge. It has since increased to nearly its former amount."

[Transcribed information from A Gazetteer of Shropshire - T Gregory - 1824](unless otherwise stated)

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