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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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OAKENGATES, a chapelry in Shiffnal and Wombridge parishes, Salop; on Watlingstreet, on the Coalportbranch of the Northwestern railway, and on the Chester, Shrewsbury, and Wolverhampton section of the Great Western railway, 3¼ miles E by S of Wellington. It was constituted in 1855; and it has stations with telegraph on the railways, and a post-office‡ under Wellington, Salop. Rated property, £2,086. Pop. in 1861, 1,821. Houses, 321. Pop. of the Wombridge section, 1, 516. Houses, 269. The property is divided among a few. Coal and iron ore abound, and are worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £89. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is good.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Wombridge CP/AP Shropshire AncC |
| Place: | Oakengates |
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