Clungunford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire.
Other places in the parish include: Broom, Broom and Rowton, Rowton, Broadward, Abcott, Beckjay, Bloom and Rowton, and Shelderton.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1559
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist
Parishes adjacent to Clungunford
Historical Descriptions
Clungunford Shropshire Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Clungunford, a parish in Clun district, Salop; on the river Clun, Watling-street, and the Central Wales railway, near Hopton-Heath r. station, 6 ¼ miles ESE of Clun. It includes the townships of Abcot, Beckjay, Broadward, Shelderton, and part of Broom and Rowton; and its post-town is Aston-on-Clun. Acres, 3,620. Real property, £4,261. Pop., 647. Houses, 113. The property is divided among a few. Clungunford House and Broadward Hall are chief residences. Limestone is found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £530. Patron, the Rev. Mr. Rocke. The church is early decorated English, in good condition; and there are charities £59.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Clungunford and Abcot Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Clungunford, and Abcot. A parish in the Stow division of the hundred of Purslow. A chapelry, in the diocese of Hereford, the deanery of Stottesden, and archdeaconry of Salop. 8 miles south-east of Bishopscastle. 85 houses, 474 inhabitants.
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
Abcot and Clungunford Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Abcot and Clungunford. A township in the parish of Clungunford, and in the Stow division of the hundred of Purslow.
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
Beckjay Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Beckjay. A township in the parish of Clungunford, and in the Stow division of the hundred of Purslow. 9 miles north-west by west of Ludlow.
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
Broadward Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Broadward. A township in the parish of Clungunford, and in the Stow division of the hundred of Purslow. 8 miles west of Ludlow.
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
Coston and Shelderton Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Coston and Shelderton. A township in the parish of Clungunford, and in the Stow division of the hundred of Purslow. Coston, is 6 ½ miles south-east, and Shelderton, 8 ½ southeast of Bishopscastle.
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
Shelderton Shropshire Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
SHELDERTON, a township in Clungunford parish, Salop; 7 ½ miles WNW of Ludlow. Real property, £1,466. Pop., 156.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Poll Books
Clungunford, 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.
Clun Polling District
Clungunford, Parish of
2107 Blakeway Charles
2108 Bridgwater Richard Wellings
2109 Burnes William
2110 Bridgwater William
2111 Bishop Timothy
2112 Ellis Richard
2113 Greenhouse Francis
2114 Howells John
2115 Jones John
2116 Langslow Edward Price, see 242
2117 Langslow George
2118 Mason Thomas
2119 Meyrick John
2120 Myddleton Richard Edwards, see 2001
2121 Rogers Charles
2122 Rocke John
2123 Rocke Thomas Owen
2124 Stedman Bichard
2125 Sitwell Willoughby Hurt, see 1854
2126 Turford Thomas
2127 Unett George
2128 Wooley Evan
2129 Wooley Thomas Hickman
Administration
- County: Shropshire
- Civil Registration District: Clun
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Hereford
- Rural Deanery: Clun
- Poor Law Union: Clun
- Hundred: Purslow
- Province: Canterbury
