Shropshire Routes to Roots - Shropshire places - Wem
by Samuel Garbet
North Bradford is within the diocese of Coventry, and Lichfield, and within the deanaries of Shrewsbury, and Newport. It is divided into fourteen parishes; Wem, Whitchurch, Great Drayton, Hodnet, Cum Moreton Sea, Stoke, Prees, Moreton Corbet, Shawbury, Ightfield, Hinstock, Adderley, Norton, Stanton, and Lee Brockhurst.
As to its civil government, it is within the county of Salop, and the hundred of Bradford. It is divided into two high constablewicks, Wem, and Drayton.
The high constablewick of Wem is divided into four allotments; Wem, Whitchurch, Shawbury, and Prees.
The high constablewick of Drayton is likewise divided into four allotments; Great Drayton, Stoke, Cheswardine, and Hodnet.
The allotment of Wem is divided into twelve petty constablewicks; Wem, Edstaston, Cotton, Horton, Newtown, Northwood, Wolverley, Lowe and Ditches, Lacon, Soulton, Aston, Tilley and Trench.
The allotment of Whitchurch is divided into thirteen petty constablewicks; Whitchurch, Doddington, Hinton, Hollyhurst and Chirmel, Old Woodhouse, Great Ash, Little Ash, Ightfield, Broughall, Alkington, Tilstock, Edgley, and New Woodhouse.
The allotment of Shawbury is divided into eight petty constablewicks; Shawbury, Muckleston, Little Withiford, High Hatton, Edgebolton, Stanton, Moreton Corbet and Booley Moston, and Lee Brockhurst.
The allotment of Prees is divided into nine petty constablewicks; Prees, Wixall, Steel, Darleston, Sandford and Ashley, Millen Heath, Cowerhall, Woolaston, Fauls, and Mickley.
The allotment of Drayton is divided into twelve petty constablewicks; Great Drayton, Woodease, Betton, Howle, Hinstock, Sambroke, Pickstocks, Pilson, Sutton, Longslow, Little Drayton, and Hinstock.
The allotment of Stoke is divided into seven petty constablewicks; Stoke, Child's-Ercal and Goldston, Wistonswick, Eaton, Ollerton, Norton, Elleston, with part of Sambrokes.
The allotment of Cheswardine is divided into eight petty constablewicks; Cheswardine, Adderley, Spoonley and Sherrington, Dorrington, Chipnal, Sowdley, Bearson, Woore, Gravenhunger.
The allotment of Hodnet is divided into thirteen petty constablewicks; Hodnet, Little Bolas, Blechly, Longford, Kenston, Peplow, Hopton and Espeley, Moreton Sea, Weston and Wixill, Stych and Woodlands, Hawkestone, Marchamley and Losford, and Wollerton.
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