Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEENTON

NEENTON, a parish in Bridgnorth district, Salop; on the river Rea, 6½ miles S W of Bridgnorth r. station. Post town, Bridgnorth. Acres, 1, 140. Real property, not separately returned. Pop., 110. Houses, 27. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to H. Lyster, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £190.* Patron, Lady Charles Lyster. The church is ancient but good, and has a bell-turret.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Neenton CP/AP       Shropshire AncC
Place: Neenton

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