Place:Lydbury North, Shropshire, England

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NameLydbury North
Alt namesNorth Lydburysource: variation
Lydbury N
N Lydbury
Acton (Lydbury North)source: hamlet in parish
Brockton (Lydbury North)source: hamlet in parish
Choultonsource: hamlet in parish
Churchmoorsource: hamlet in parish
Old Church Moorsource: another description
Dinmoresource: extraparochial area
Eaton (Lydbury North)source: hamlet in parish
Eyton with Plowdensource: hamlet in parish
Hill Endsource: extraparochial area
Lower Downsource: hamlet in parish
Plowdensource: village in parish
Plowdonsource: mis-spelling of above
Priors Holtsource: hamlet in parish
Priors Holt Hillsource: hamlet in parish
Tottertonsource: hamlet in parish
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates52.468°N 2.954°W
Located inShropshire, England
See alsoPurslow Hundred, Shropshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Clun Rural, Shropshire, Englandrural district 1894-1967
Clun and Bishop's Castle Rural, Shropshire, Englandrural district 1967-1974
South Shropshire District, Shropshire, Englanddistrict municipality 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


NOTE: Within Shropshire, England there are at least four hamlets named Brockton, each in a different parish. Two of these: Brockton in Sutton Maddock parish and Brockton in Stanton Long parish are fairly close together in the southern part of the county, while Brockton in Worthen parish and Brockton in Lydbury North parish are near the county border with Montgomeryshire, Wales. All users should check placenames in sources carefully to prevent confusion for all.


Lydbury North is a large parish, with a long history, covering over 7,500 acres in the county of Shropshire, England. It is situated 20 miles southwest from Shrewsbury and comprises, in addition to the village of Lydbury North, the townships of Acton (Lydbury North), Brockton (Lydbury North), Choulton, Eaton (Lydbury North), Eyton with Plowden, Lower Down, Totterton and the extraparochial Dinmore and Hill End.

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Lydbury North is a village and a geographically large civil parish in south Shropshire, England. The population of the parish at the 2011 UK census was 695. The parish is locally called Lydbury and there is no settlement called Lydbury South.

It is situated in the south west corner of the county, near to the small towns of Clun and Bishop's Castle. The B4385 road runs through the village, as does the Jack Mytton Way (a long distance footpath and bridleway). To the west is the village and parish of Colebatch.

Priors Holt, Priors Holt Hill and Churchmoor (sometimes Old Church Moor) are at the northeastern extremities of the parish. The parish church (located in the village of Lydbury North) is dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels. There is also a small Catholic chapel in the village of Plowden.

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NOTE: Places printed in italics are hamlets within the parishes. References to these particular hamlets will be redirected here. Those which include "(Lydbury North)" in their names are commonly used placenames which may be used in other parishes in Shropshire.

Research tips

  • For transcripts of Parish Registers and Censuses visit http://forebears.co.uk/england/shropshire/lydbury-north (This could be a "hidden" pay site.)
  • 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 Plowden's St. Francis Roman Catholic registers is online and is provided through the auspices of GENUKI. GENUKIdoes not provide a transcription for the Lydbury North Church of England parish.


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