Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DONINGTON

DONINGTON, a township in Lilleshall parish, Salop: on the Shropshire Union railway, and the Marquis of Stafford's canal, 3½ miles SW of Newport. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Newport, Salop. Pop., 2, 757. Barracks are here; and coal and iron are worked. See Donington-Wood.


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

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

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