GENUKI: PATTINGHAM: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1824., Shropshire

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"PATTINGHAM, a parish partly in the hundred of Stottesdon, partly in Seisdon hundred, in the county of Stafford. The Shropshire part contains 11 houses, 69 inhabitants. The entire parish contains 935 inhabitants. 8 miles southeast of Shiffnal. See Rudge."

" RUDGE (or SHIPLEY and RUDGE), a township in the parish of Pattingham, and in the Chelmarsh division of the hundred of Stottesdon. 7 miles north-east of Bridgnorth.

Rudge is pleasantly situated upon a rising ground. The number of its inhabitants does not exceed fifty. This place is the residence of Thomas Boycott, Esq., to whom it belongs. Rudge contains all that part of the parish of Pattingham which lies in the county of Salop. It maintains its own poor. The hall of Mr. Boycott has been rebuilt, and commands a most beautiful prospect of the Clee hills, and the lakes of Patshall, the seat of Sir George Pigott.

The Plymleys had a fine little estate here, (consisting of about ninety acres, and two houses,) of which Mr. Boycott became the purchaser. The estate of this gentleman (who was severely wounded in the Irish rebellion) abounds with game of every description, and the preserves are very numerous.

Rudge, which is a manor of which Mr. Boycott is the present lord, was the habitation of the family of Rudge, who were lords of it for many generations. Here, prior to the reformation, stood a chapel for the accommodation of the inhabitants of this township,- some of the relicks of this chapel have been lately discovered.

" SHIPLEY and RUDGE, a township in the parish of Pattingham, and partly in the parish of Claverley, in the Chelmarsh division of the hundred of Stottesdon. Shipley is 6½ miles north-east by east of Bridgnorth, and Budge 7 miles northeast of Bridgnorth.

Shipley is a manor in the parishes of Claverley and Pattingham. In this township Wulfrick, earl of Mercia, who founded the Abbey of Burton upon Trent, is said to have devised an estate to that abbey. In the fourteenth of Henry III. this manor was the property of William de Mortimer, lord of Chelmarsh, who held a hide of land here, by the service of doing suit at Claverley, thrice a year. In this reign it passed to Sir Adam Malveysin Knight of Malveysin Ridware, co Stafford, from whom it vested in his descendants the Cawardens, who sold it to Sir John Leeson, alias Leveson, from whom it descended to the present Marquess of Stafford."

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