Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DONINGTON-WOOD

DONINGTON-WOOD, a chapelry in Lilleshall parish, Salop; at Donington township and r. station, 3½ miles SW of Newport. It was constituted in 1851. Post town, Donington, under Newport, Salop. Rated property, £3, 000. Pop., 1, 351. Houses, 243. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £179.* Patron, the Duke of Sutherland. The church is tolerable.


(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: Donington Wood

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