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QUATFORD: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

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"QUATFORD, a parish partly in the borough of BRIDGENORTH, but chiefly in the hundred of STOTTESDEN, county of SALOP, 2 miles (S. E.) from Bridgenorth, containing, with the township of Eardington, 411 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the jurisdiction of the royal peculiar court of Bridgenorth, endowed with £ 14 per annum private benefaction, £ 800 royal bounty, and £ 1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of W. Whitmore, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene."

" EARDINGTON, a township in that part of the parish of QUATFORD, which is in the hundred of STOTTESDEN, county of SALOP, 2 miles (S. by E.) from Bridgenorth, containing 306 inhabitants. Iron-works have been established here."

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

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