Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Frankwell like this:

FRANKWELL, a chapelry in St. Chad parish, Salop; within Shrewsbury borough. It was constituted in 1836; and its post town is Shrewsbury. Rated property, £6, 713. Pop., 2, 581. Houses, 576. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £160.* Patron, the Vicar of St. Chad. The church is good.

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