EDGMOND: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1824.

"EDGMOND, a parish in the Drayton division of the hundred of Bradford North. A rectory in charge, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, the deanery of Newport, and archdeaconry of Salop. 406 houses, 2,163 inhabitants. 2 miles south- west by west of Newport.

The Rev. William Gilbert, a celebrated nonconformist divine, held the rectory of Edgmond and was born, if not there, in some part of Shropshire, in the year 1613. He was educated at Edmund Hall, Oxford, and was presented, by Lord Wharton, to the living of upper Winchington, in Buckinghamshire; afterwards to the vicarage of St. Lawrence, Reading; and lastly, to the rectory of Edgmond, in his native county; from which he was ejected at the restoration. He afterwards officiated among the nonconformists at Oxford and London, and died at Oxford, in 1694. His works are; 1. Vindicia supremi Dei Domini, against Dr. Owen; 2. England's Passing Bell a poem on the plague, the fire ofLondon, and the Dutch war; 3. Super auspicatissimo regis Gul. in Hiberniam descensu, 4to.; 4. Epitaphia diversa. He also published a dialogue, called "Julius Secundus," which he ascribed to Erasmus."

" ADNEY, a township in the parish of Edgmond, and in the Newport division of the hundred of Bradford South. 4 miles south- west by west of Newport."

" CAYNTON, a township in the parish of Edgmond, and in the Drayton division of the hundred of Bradford North. 3½ miles north-west of Newport."

" CHERRINGTON, a township in the parishes of Edgmond and Great Bolas. 80 houses, 192 inhabitants. 4½ miles west of Newport."

" CHURCH ASTON, a township in the parish of Edgmond, and in the Newport division of the hundred of Bradford South, a chapel to the parish of Edgmond, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, the deanery of Newport, and archdeaconry of Salop. 173 houses, 329 inhabitants. 1 mile south from Newport."

" PICKSTOCK, a township in the parish of Edgmond, and in the Drayton division of the hundred of Bradford North. 3 miles north-west by north of Newport."

" STANFORD, a township in the parish of Edgmond, and in the Newport division of the hundred of Bradford South."

" TIBBERTON, a township in the parish of Edgmond, and in the Newport division of the hundred of Bradford South. 67 houses, 303 inhabitants. A chapel to Edgmond, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, the deanery of Newport, and archdeaconry of Salop. A separate assessment from Edgmond. 4 miles north-west hy west of Newport,"

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

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