Place:Condover, Shropshire, England

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NameCondover
Alt namesDorringtonsource: village in parish
Lyth Hillsource: hamlet in parish
Ryton in Condoversource: hamlet in parish
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates52.648°N 2.75°W
Located inShropshire, England
See alsoCondover Hundred, Shropshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Atcham Rural, Shropshire, Englandrural district 1894-1974
Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough, Shropshire, Englandadministrative district covering the area 1974-2009
Shropshire District, Shropshire, Englandunitary authority covering the area since 2009
source: Family History Library Catalog
source: Family History Library Catalog
source: Family History Library Catalog


the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Condover is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is on the southern boundary of the county town of Shrewsbury. The Cound Brook flows through the parish on its way from Stretton Hills to a confluence with the River Severn. Condover parish includes the the village of Condover which about 5 miles from the centre of Shrewsbury, and also the villages of Dorrington, Lyth Hill and Ryton. Bayston Hill was also part of the parish until 1967, but has its own article in WeRelate. The population of the Condover parish was estimated as 1,972 for 2008, of which an estimated 659 live in the village of Condover itself. The actual population measured at the 2011 UK census had fallen to 1,957.

The parish acreage remained steady at 7,542 between 1891 and 1931, but increased in 1934 when it absorbed Meole Brace parish on its northwest. In 1967 Stapleton parish on the southwest was absorbed but the area that had previously been Meole Brace became the parish of Bayston Hill.

Condover village contains a higher than normal proportion of listed buildings and over half of the village has been classified as a "conservation area" since 1976. The more than forty "listed" structures in Condover range from six separate early cruck-framed buildings and many black-and-white timbered cottages to the present-day Vicarage and several funerary monuments in the churchyard. Of the early half-timbered houses, the most impressive are Church House, the Old School House and the Small House that is now known as Condover Court.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Condover.

From 1894 until 1974 the parish was in the Atcham Rural District of Shropshire. In 1974 rural districts throughout England were abolished and replaced with new non-metropolitan districts which combined the rural districts, urban districts, municipal boroughs and county boroughs that existed within their newly drawn geographical borders. The Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough, so created, existed until 2009 when it was replaced by a unitary authority called the Shropshire District which covered the whole of the county with the exception of The Wrekin District (to the east of Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough) which was formed in 1998.

Dorrington

the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Dorrington is a large village in Shropshire, England, located 6 miles (10 km) south of Shrewsbury in the south of the parish of Condover. The population of the village was estimated as being 619 in 2008.

The Cound Brook flows to the east of the village, and to the southwest is Netley Hall and Netley Old Hall Farm. The A49 road runs through the village, which has a number of businesses located both in a small business park and along the main road. The Church of England church, dedicated to Saint Edward, is in the village.

To the east of Dorrington is the hamlet of Ryton. Both Ryton and Dorrington lie in the civil parish of Condover.

Research Tips

  • The historical short form for Shropshire was "Salop". This is quite often found in archive material.
  • Shropshire Archives, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury SY1 2AQ
  • Shropshire Family History Society.
  • The GENUKI main page for Shropshire provides information on various topics covering the whole of the county, and there is also a link to a list of parishes. Under each parish there is a list of the settlements within it and brief description of each. This is a list of pre-1834 ancient or ecclesiastical parishes but there are suggestions as to how to find parishes set up since then.
  • GENUKI also provides transcriptions of parish registers for numerous parishes throughout Shropshire. These will be noted at the bottom of this list as time permits for the parishes involved. Each register is preceded by historical notes from the editor-transciber and other details than simply births, marriages and deaths that have been found in the individual books from the parishes. These registers probably only go up to 1812 when the proscribed style for registers across the country was altered.
  • GENUKI lists under each parish further references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area. (URLs for these other websites may not be up to date.)
  • The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date and from more recent data. The wiki has a link to English Jurisdictions 1851. There is a list of all the parishes in existence in 1851 with maps indicating their boundaries. The website is very useful for finding the ecclesiastical individual parishes within large cities and towns.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time, Shropshire, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are similar pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions that existed pre-1974. Descriptions provided are usually based on a gazetteer of 1870-72 which often provides brief notes on the economic basis of the settlement and significant occurences through its history.
  • The two maps below indicate the boundaries between parishes, etc., but for a more detailed view of a specific area try a map from this selection. The oldest series are very clear at the third magnification offered. Comparing the map details with the GENUKI details for the same area is well worthwhile.
  • Map of Shropshire illustrating urban and rural districts in 1900 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. Parish boundaries and settlements within parishes are shown. (Unfortunately the online copy of this map has pencil codings in each parish which make it difficult to see the orignal.)
  • Map of Shropshire urban and rural districts in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. Parish boundaries and settlements within parishes are shown. This is not a repeat of the first map. There were a number of changes to urban and rural district structure in the 1930s.
  • A map of the ancient divisions named "hundreds" is to be found in A Vision of Britain through Time. Some of the hundreds were broken into separate sections with other hundreds in between.
  • The website British History Online provides four volumes of the Victoria County History Series on Shropshire. Volume 2 covers the religious houses of the county; Volume 4 provides a history of agriculture across the county, and Volumes 10 and 11 deal with Munslow Hundred, the Borough of Wenlock and the Telford area (i.e., the northeastern part of the county). The rest of the county is not presently covered. References to individual parishes will be furnished as time permits.
  • A transcription of the Condover parish registers is online and is provided through the auspices of GENUKI.
  • The registers of Lyth Hill and Dorrington Independent Chapel (1808-1837) are also available online through GENUKI.
This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Condover. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Dorrington, Shropshire. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.