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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))
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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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