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" ALBERBURY, a parish in the hundred of Ford, in county Shropshire, and the hundreds of Cawse and Deythur, in the county of Montgomery, North Wales, 9 miles to the N.W. of Shrewsbury railway station. It is situated on the river Severn, which forms part of its boundary, and on the Roman road called Wading Street, which runs through it. It contains the chapelries of Great Wollaston and Criggion, and the townships of Bauseley Alberbury, Benthal with Shrawardine Eyton, Rowton with Amaston, and several others. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford, value £187, in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of All Souls' College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and is an old stone building, with nave, chancel, and tower. There is an ancient stained-glass window in the aisle, and seven memorial windows in the chancel. In addition to the parish church, there are two chapels of ease, one at Criggion, built in 1788. It is a perpetual curacy, value £108, in the patronage of Y. Pickers, Esq. The other, at the hamlet of Wollaston, also a perpetual curacy, value £95, in the patronage of the vicar. This district was closely settled by the Romans, and on Bausley Hill is a Roman encampment. There are also several barrows. In the reign of Henry II. a castle was built here by Fulk Fitzwarren, who also founded White Abbey as a cell to Grandmonte, in France. There are remains of both. The site of the abbey was given by Henry VI. to All Souls' College, when alien priories were dissolved." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2015]

"CRIGGION, (or Cruggion), a township in the parish of Alberbury, hundred of Cawrse, in the county of Montgomery, 9 miles N.E. of Welshpool. It is situated on the river Severn, and is supposed by some antiquaries to be the spot where Caractacus was finally vanquished by Ostorius Scapula. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Hereford, value £108, in the patronage of V. Vickers, Esq. On Breiddon Hill, under which this village stands, is the Rodney pillar." [The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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Cemeteries

Anglican
St Michael and All Angels, Alberbury, Church of England
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Census

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Churches

Anglican
St Michael and All Angels, Alberbury, Church of England
Methodist
Bethel Primitive Methodist, Crew Green
Coedway English Chapel (Calvinistic Methodist), Coedway
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Church History

Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 11, North Wales. Ed. by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, UWP,   1981. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.

Middleton (MGY)

Township statistics; Area 736 acres; Population 50 males, 52 females, total 102

  • Middletown Chapel, Wesleyan Methodist            Erected 1835         Attendance - morning 38 + 10 scholars, evening 19                  Edward Watson, Wesleyan Minister, Welshpool

Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 11, North Wales. Ed. by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, UWP,   1981. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.

UPPINGTON (MGY)

Township statistics; Area 1002 acres; Population 56 males, 47 females, total 103

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Church Records

  • The transcription of the Parish Registers for Alberbury provided by Mel Lockie. 
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Gazetteers

Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2015

  • AMASTON, [is] a township in the parish of Alberbury, in the hundred of Ford, in Shropshire, 7 miles to the W. of Shrewsbury.
  • BENTHALL, [is] a township in the parish of Alberbury, hundred of Ford, in the county of Salop, 8 miles to the W. of Shrewsbury. It is near the river Severn.
  • EYTON, [is] a township in the parish of Alberbury, county Salop, 7 miles N.W. of Shrewsbury. It is situated near the river Severn.
  • ROWTON, [is] a township and chapelry in the parish of Alberbury, hundred of Ford, county Salop, 7 miles W. of Shrewsbury. It includes Rowton Castle. Richard Baxter, the eminent divine, was born here in 1615.
  • SHRAWARDINE, [is] a township in the parish of Alberbury, hundred of Ford, county Salop, 7 miles N.W. of Shrewsbury, in the vale of the Severn, near the ancient Watling Street.
  • WOLLASTON, [is] a chapelry in the parish of Alberbury, hundred of Ford, county Salop, 9 miles W. of Shrewsbury, on the road between Shrewsbury and Welsh Pool, near the river Severn. There are lead mines and stone quarries."

MIDDLETON, a township in that part of the parish of ALBERBURY which is in the lower division of the hundred of CAWRSE, county of MONTGOMERY, NORTH WALES, 6 miles (E. by S.) from Welshpool, containing 100 inhabitants.( A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833 )

UPPINGTON, a township in that part of the parish of ALBERBURY which is in the lower division of the hundred of CAWRSE, county of MONTGOMERY, NORTH WALES, containing 132 inhabitants. The average annual expenditure for the maintenance of the poor is £64. 0.  ( A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833 )

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Maps

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