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:
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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