Rushbury, Shropshire Family History Guide

Rushbury is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire.

Other places in the parish include: Eastwall, Gretton, Stanway, Wilderhope and Stanway, Wall under Haywood, Wilderhope, and Acton Stone.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1538

Nonconformists include:

Parishes adjacent to Rushbury

Historical Descriptions

Rushbury

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RUSHBURY, a village and a parish in Church-Stretton district, Salop. The village stands on the Much-Wenlock and Craven-Arms railway, 4 miles E by S of Church-Stretton; was once a market-town; and has a post-office under Church-Stretton, and a r. station. The parish includes the townships of Rushbury, Stone-Acton, Wall-under-Haywood, Wilderhope, Stanway, and parts of Gretton and Eastwall. Acres, 4,132. Real property, £4,203. Pop., 576. Houses, 108. The property is much subdivided. The parish is traversed by Watling-street and Ryknield-street; is supposed to have had a Roman station; and has yielded Roman coins. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £449. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church was restored in 1855. There are a parochial school, and charities £44.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Rushbury, a parish in Munslow hund., union of Church-Stretton, county of Salop; 8 miles south west by west of Much Wenlock, comprising the townships of East Wall, Gretton, Lutwytch with Stanway, Rushbury, Stone-Acton, and Wall under Heywood. Living, a rectory in the archd. of Salop. and dio. of Hereford; rated at £19 7s. 8½d.; gross income £449. Patron, the bishop of Worcester. Here is a daily school. Charities, in 1830, £45 19s. 7d. per annum. Poor rates, in 1838, £162 3s. Acres 5,620. Houses 97. A.P. £3,050. Pop., in 1801, 356; in 1831, 507.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

Acton Stone

Shropshire Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

Acton-Stone, a township in Rushbury parish, Salop; 3 miles E of Church-Stretton.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A Fullerton & Co. N.d.c. [1870-72].

Eastwall

Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824

Eastwall. A township in the parish of Rushbury, and in the upper division of the hundred of Munslow. 5 miles east of Church Stretton.
Source: The Shropshire Gazetteer, with an Appendix, including a Survey of the County and Valuable Miscellaneous Information, with Plates. Printed and Published by T. Gregory, Wem, 1824

Gretton

Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824

Gretton. A township in the parish of Rushbury, and in the upper division of the hundred of Munslow. 4 miles north-east by east of Church Stretton.
Source: The Shropshire Gazetteer, with an Appendix, including a Survey of the County and Valuable Miscellaneous Information, with Plates. Printed and Published by T. Gregory, Wem, 1824

Lutwich

Shropshire Gazetteer 1824

Lutwich. A township in the parish of Rushbury, and in the upper division of the hundred of Munslow.
Source: The Shropshire Gazetteer, with an Appendix, including a Survey of the County and Valuable Miscellaneous Information, with Plates. Printed and Published by T. Gregory, Wem, 1824

Poll Books

Rushbury, Shropshire, Poll Book 1865

Below are the names of those that voted in the election of July 1865 between Col. The Hon. P. E. Herbert, Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bart., and R. Jasper More, Esq.

Poll Book of the Election, July 1865 for the Southern Division of Shropshire.

Church Stretton Polling District

Rushbury, Parish of

1279 Biggs John

1280 Blakeway John

1281 Benson Moses George

1282 Bright Andrew

1283 Bright Richard

1284 Bromley Joseph

1285 Childs Humphrey

1286 Cleeton Edward S.

1287 Cleeton Edward jun.

1288 Cleeton Richard

1289 Clinton John

1290 Corfield John

1291 Davies Benjamin

1292 Esp Edward

1293 Fewtrell Edward

1294 Finch William

1295 George Thomas

1296 Grainger John

1297 Hamer John, see 1221

1298 Hodgitts Henry

1299 Hotham Frederick Harry, the Rev.

1300 Jarvis Thomas

1301 Kempster John

1302 Marsh Edwin Shaw

1303 Mitton Daniel

1304 Moore John

1305 Smout Henry

1306 Smout Richard

1307 Smout Timothy

1308 Sankey John

1309 Speak Edward

1310 Speak Matthew

1311 Taylor Job, see 1230

1312 Wadlow Charles

1313 Wadlow Edmund

1314 Wainwright Humphrey

1315 Wainwright Richard

1316 Webster George

1317 Wall Samuel

Administration

  • County: Shropshire
  • Civil Registration District: Church Stretton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Hereford
  • Rural Deanery: Wenlock
  • Poor Law Union: Church Stretton
  • Hundred: Munslow
  • Province: Canterbury