Site-Search
Coming Soon
|
Site-Search |
|
Page and site |
|
Ellesmere in Salop County England History and GeographyELLESMERE, a market town and parish in the hundred of PIMHILL, county of SALOP, 16¼ miles (N.N.W.) from Shrewsbury, and 178½ (N.W.) from London, containing, with the chapelries of Cockshut, Dudlaston, and Penley (the last of which, is in the county of Flint), 6056 inhabitants. This place takes its name from an adjoining lake, or mere, which, being more extensive than some others in the neighbourhood, was, by way of pre-eminence, called Al, or Aelsmere from which its present appellation is derived. The lake comprises more than one hundred acres, and is bordered on one side by the town, and on the other by Oatley park, in which are some of the finest elm trees to be found in any part of the country. The town consists of some tolerably well paved streets; the houses are in general well built, and have a respectable appearance, and the inhabitants are amply supplied with water. On the elevated site of an ancient castle, which was alternately in the possession of the princes of North Wales and of the English monarchs, (having been a frontier fortress of considerable note during the unsettled period which preceded the final subjugation of Wales,) and which was probably demolished after the parliamentary war, is a very fine bowling-green, commanding a pleassing view, where an annual festival, called the meeting of Ellesmere club, is celebrated at Midsummer. The trade is principally in malt, which is carried on to a very great extent, and in leather; and many of the labouring class are employed in the spinning of flax, and in the manufacture of stockings. The Ellesmere canal passes to the south of the town, and, with its different branches, forms a connexion between the Severn, the Dee, and the Mersey, being a line of navigation from Liverpool to Bristol, and a communication with North Wales. The market, granted to Sir Edward Kynaston, Knt., in 1598, is on Tuesday, and is noted for corn: the fairs are on the Tuesday after February 2nd, the third Tuesday in April, Whit-Tuesday, August 26th, and November 14th, for horses, cattle, and sheep. Ellesmere formerly gave name to a hundred, which, with its dependencies, was annexed to the hundred of Pimhill, in the 27th of Henry VIII.; a hundred court is held for the recovery of debts under 40s. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £17. 18. 1½., and in the patronage of the Trustees of the late Earl of Bridgewater. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient structure in the decorated style of English architecture, with a square embattled tower crowned with pinnacles; the east window is a remarkably fine composition in the later style. The livings of the chapelries in this parish are perpetual curacies, in the patronage of the Vicar. A National school is supported by subscription; and near the margin of the lake, at a short distance from the town, is the house of industry, for the reception of the poor of five adjoining parishes. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
Readers of this page were also interested in: Cheshire County England History and Geograhy Epworth in Lincoln County England History and Geography EPWORTH, a market town and parish in the western division of the wapentake of MANLEY, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 28¾ miles (N.W. by N.) from Lincoln, and 157¾ (N. by W.) from London, containing 1763 inhabitants Hackney in Middlesex County England History and Geography HACKNEY, a parish in the Tower division of the hundred of OSSULSTONE, county of MIDDLESEX, 2 miles (N.E.) from London, comprising three districts, viz., Hackney St. John, South Hackney, and West Hackney, and containing 22,494 inhabitants Kirkdale in York County England History and Geography KIRKDALE, a parish comprising the township of Norton, with a portion of Wombleton, within the liberty of ST. PETER of YORK, East riding, and the townships of Beadlam, Bransdale (West Side), Muscoates, Nawton, North Holme, Skiplam, Welburn, and a portion of Wombleton, in the wapentake of RYEDALE, North riding, of the county of YORK, 4¼ miles (E. by N Pendleton in Lancaster County England History and Geography PENDLETON, a chapelry in the parish of ECCLES, hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER, 2½ miles (W. by N.) from Manchester, containing 5948 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Eccles, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 royal bounty, and £1800 parliamentary grant. The chapel, dedicated to St. Thomas, was built by Messrs Staines in Middlesex County England History and Geography STAINES, a market town and parish, in the hundred of SPELTHORNE, county of MIDDLESEX, 10 miles (W. S. W.) from Brentford, and 17 (W. S. W.) from London, containing 1957 inhabitants. This place has by some been conjectured to derive its name from a Roman milliarium, which is stated to have been placed here, and the traces of a Roman road pointing towards Staines' bridge, mentioned by Dr |
