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NESS-CLIFF, a township in Great Ness parish, Salop; on the Potteries, Shrewsbury, and North Wales railway, 11¼ miles W N W of Shrewsbury. It has a station on the railway . A rocky cliff is here, and givesname to the township. There was formerly a chapel ofease, on a site now occupied by a parochial school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Great Ness AP/CP Shropshire AncC |
Place: | Nesscliffe |
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