Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Moreton Corbet

Moreton Corbet, par., vil., and seat, Shropshire, on river Roden, 4½ miles SE. of Wem, 2193 ac., pop. 251; the castle was built in the 16th century, on the site of a previous castle, and was burnt in the Civil War.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish, village, and seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Moreton Corbet AP/CP       Shropshire AncC
Place: Moreton Corbet

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