PRESTON UPON THE WILD MOORS: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

"PRESTON UPON THE WILD MOORS, a parish in the Wellington division of the hundred fcof BRADFORD (South), county of SALOP, 3 miles (N.E.byN.) from Wellington, containing 209 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £3, and in the patronage of the Trustees of Preston Hospital. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence. The Shrewsbury canal passes within the southwest boundary of the parish. Here is a large hospital for decayed widows and their children, with ample funds for its support: the Earl of Bradford is the trustee."

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

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