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Name | Eaton under Heywood |
Alt names | Eaton-under-Heywood | source: hyphenated | | Eaton under Haywood | source: common misspelling | | Eaton-under-Haywood | source: hyphenated | | Ticklerton | source: village in parish | | Birtley | source: township in parish | | Harton | source: township in parish | | Hatton | source: township in parish | | Lushcott-Longville | source: township in parish | | Soudley (Heywood) | source: township in parish | | Upper Millichope | source: township in parish | | Wolverton | source: township in parish |
Type | Parish (ancient), Civil parish |
Coordinates | 52.506°N 2.74°W |
Located in | Shropshire, England |
See also | Wenlock Franchise, Shropshire, England | liberty in which it was located until 1836 | | Munslow Hundred, Shropshire, England | hundred in which it was located after 1836 | | Church Stretton Rural, Shropshire, England | rural district 1894-1934 | | Ludlow Rural, Shropshire, England | rural district 1934-1974 | | South Shropshire District, Shropshire, England | district municipality covering the area 1974-2009 | | Shropshire District, Shropshire, England | unitary authority covering the area since 2009 |
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Eaton under Heywood is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. The church is dedicated to St. Edith. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 UK census was 171.
Its main settlement is the small village of Eaton, which lies under Wenlock Edge and the woods along it. The village is also known as Eaton-under-Heywood (to distinguish it from the other places called Eaton) and the parish/village is sometimes spelt as Eaton-under-Haywood.
The village of Ticklerton and the hamlets of Birtley, Harton, Hatton, Soudley and Wolverton are in the parish. The nearest town is Church Stretton.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Eaton under Heywood from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "EATON, a parish in Church-Stretton [registration] district, Salop [or Shropshire]; on Eaton Brook, under Wenlock Edge, 4½ miles SE by E of Church Stretton town and [railway] station. It contains Hatton, Hungerford, Ticklerton, Lushcott-Longville, and Upper Millichope; and its post town is Rushbury, under Church-Stretton. Acres: 6,201. Real property: £4,967. Population: 544. Houses: 93. The property is subdivided. Eaton Brook is an affluent of the Onny. Some stone is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value: £350. Patron: H. Sandford, Esq. The church is ancient."
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.
Categories: Shropshire, England | Eaton under Heywood, Shropshire, England | Wenlock Franchise, Shropshire, England | Munslow Hundred, Shropshire, England | Church Stretton Rural, Shropshire, England | Ludlow Rural, Shropshire, England | South Shropshire District, Shropshire, England | Shropshire District, Shropshire, England
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