WEST FELTON: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

"WEST FELTON, a parish in the hundred of OSWESTRY, county of SALOP, 5 miles (S.E. by E.) from Oswestry, containing 1035 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £20. 12.6., and in the patronage of the Earl of Craven. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The Ellesmere canal passes the boundary of this parish. There is a remarkable well in the township of Woolston, dedicated to St. Winifred. John Dovaston, Esq., a man of learning, science, and ingenuity, was born here in 1740, and died on the 31st of March, 1808; the limited education which he received was at the village school, and the varied and extensive abilities which he afterwards displayed were self-acquired. The estate, called the Nursery, is now in the occupation of his son, J. F. M. Dovaston, Esq., who has distinguished himself by his poetical attainments, his sportive genius, and lively imagination."

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

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