Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PAINS-LANE

PAINS-LANE, a chapelry in Lilleshall parish, Salop; on Watling-street, 1 mile E by S of Oakengates r. station, and 3¾ E by S of Wellington. It was constituted in 1837; and its post town is Wellington, Salop. Pop., 614. Houses, 122. The property is all in one estate. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £205.* Patron, the Duke of Sutherland. The church is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lilleshall CP/AP       Shropshire AncC
Place: St Georges

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