Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FRANKTON

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.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township, with a railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Welsh Frankton Tn       Whittington CP/AP       Shropshire AncC
Place: Welsh Frankton

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