Place:


Welsh Frankton  Shropshire

 

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

FRANKTON, a township, with a railway station, in Whittington parish, Salop; 3¼ miles SW of Ellesmere. Pop., 275. It forms a curacy with Whittington; and has a church, an Independent chapel, and a national school.

Welsh Frankton through time

Welsh Frankton is now part of North Shropshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how North Shropshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Welsh Frankton itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Welsh Frankton in North Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23071

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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