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Bishop's Castle Library has a small collection of printed material about the town and the surrounding area. Shropshire Archives, in Shrewsbury, is the county repository for original documents and has the following range of material:
Acton, Frances Stackhouse, The castles and old mansions of
Shropshire (1868)
Griffiths, E G, History of Bishop's Castle (1901)
Leonard, John, Preshous, David, Roberts, Marion, Smyth, John and
Train, Christopher (eds) The gale of life; two thousand years in
South-West Shropshire (2000)
Lawrence, Anne The Bishop's castle; the story of the castle at
Bishop's Castle (1995)
Preshous, Janet Bishop's Castle well-remembered (1990)
Rhodes, Gerald (ed.) A Shropshire landowner; the diary of Henry
Oakeley, 1869-1871 (1980)
Other published resources include:
Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society
Shropshire Magazine
South West Shropshire Historical & Archaeological Society
Journal
The following are available at Shropshire Archives as microfilm or microfiche. A printed transcript for Bishop's Castle Parish covering the years 1559-1715 (ed. M Roberts) is also available in the Reading Room of Shropshire Archives.
Bishop's Castle Parish, 1559-1914
Bishop's Castle and Clun Methodist Circuit, 1887-1900
Bishop's Castle Independent Chapel, 1814-1837
Bishop's Castle Parish, 1559-1970
Bishop's Castle Parish,1559-1946
Shropshire Archives holds these for 1841, 1851 (indexed), 1861, 1871, 1881 (searchable database on CDROM), 1891 and 1901. From 1851 all census returns contain the following information: address, residents on census night, relationship to head of household, marital status, age and sex, occupation, place of birth.
Shropshire Archives has a range of material including school records, estate records and records of Local Authorities and institutions. Examples are:
Bishop's Castle National School (ED1564/14-16)
Bishop's Castle Boys Board/Council School (ED441/1,
ED2699/37/23)
Bishop's Castle Girls & Infants Board/Council School
(ED441/1, ED2699/37/24)
Records of the Garnett-Botfield Family (ref: 539)
Powis Estate Records (ref: 552)
Deeds and papers relating to the Charlton Family of Ludford Park
(ref: 11)
Records of the More and Mytton families (ref: 1039)
Records of Bishop's Castle Borough, 1612-1967 (ref: DA1)
Records of Clun Rural District Council, 1837-1975 (ref:
DA19)
Records of Clun and Bishop's Castle Rural District Council,
1967-1974 (ref: DA31)
Bishop's Castle Highway Board (ref: HB2)
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August 2007
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