Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WHIXHALL

WHIXHALL, a chapelry, with a village, in Prees parish, Salop; 1½ mile W by N of Prees r. station, and 4 N by E of Wem. It has a post-office under Whitchurch-. Pop., 978. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield-Value, £120.* Patron, the Vicar of Prees. The church was reported in 1859 as bad. There is an Independent chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Prees CP/AP       Shropshire AncC
Place: Whixall

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