In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Horsehay like this:
HORSEHAY, a hamlet in the E of Salop; on the Wellington and Severn Junction railway, 3¼ miles SE of Wellington. It has a station on the railway, and a postoffice under Wellington, Salop. W. Ball, born here in 1795, weighed upwards of 40 stone in 1850, and was then 6 feet 3 inches in girth, and 5 feet 9 inches high.
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Horsehay through time
Horsehay is now part of Telford and Wrekin district. Click here for graphs and data of how Telford and Wrekin has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Horsehay itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Horsehay, in Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25314
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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