Shropshire Townships

The table below provides the relationship between Shropshire Townships, the Parishes in which they are located, and their Hundreds (and Divisions of Hundreds). The data has been derived from Gregory's 1824 Gazetteer supplemented by additional information provided by Lewis's 1831 Gazetteer, and using the spellings for parishes provided by the 1868 National Gazetteer. These choices have been made in order to provide a table that will be of use to family (and other) historians using data predominantly from before 1900.

However, there are complications which make such a table hard to produce and understand:

• Since 1824, townships and parishes have changed, sometimes significantly, and correlating the 1824 data with that of 1831 and 1868 can produce anomalies. More importantly, the data might bear little relationship with what's currently the case right now and might therefore seem to be in error.

• Because the data is derived from Gregory's 1824 Gazetteer I have exploited his definition of Shropshire "Hundred" to include the Liberties of Shrewsbury, the Franchise of Wenlock, the Borough of Ludlow, and the Borough and Liberties of Bridgnorth.

• The data is not hierarchical and so a Parish can include Townships in more than one Hundred, or even more than one County. Similarly, a Township may be split between more than one Parish, or Hundred or County. There are examples in the table of Townships with other parts in Denbigh, Montgomery, Cheshire, Staffordshire or Herefordshire. Where this is clear, they are annotated with "part of".

• The Township was the lowest form of civil administration in 1824 so a Township can consist of more than one "place", i.e., several villages or hamlets might make up a single Township.

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