Crow Meol,

a township in the parish of St. Chad, on the Shrewsbury and Montgomery turnpike road, two miles west from the former town, at the census of 1841 had 24 houses and 120 inhabitants. The township contains 200a. 3r. 11p. of land, about one half of which is the property of Thomas Brocas, Esq., and the remainder is held by upwards of twenty freeholders. Copthorne House, the residence and property of Thomas Brocas, Esq., is pleasantly situated, and commands a pleasing view of the country. Adjoining the hall a neat chapel has been built by Mr. Brocas, where the ministers of the Wesleyan New Connexion officiate. The principal residents are Thomas Brocas, Esq., Copthorne Hall; Robert Phillips, Esq., Bowbrook House; William Adams, farmer; John Bowdler, tailor; and Francis Pool, farmer.

Onslow is a township four miles west from Shrewsbury, having 10 houses and 76 inhabitants at the census of 1841. The land is the property of Colonel Wingfield, who resides at Onslow Hall, a handsome stuccoed mansion, partly in the parish of St. Chad and partly in that of Pontesbury. A pillar in the kitchen of the hall is the point of separation between the two parishes. The principal residents are Colonel Wingfield, Onslow Hall, and Charles Edward Boore, Richard Vaughan, and John Wood, farmers.

Whitley and Welbach is a township in the parish of St. Chad; four miles west by south from Shrewsbury, having in 1841, 21 houses and 113 inhabitants. A short distance from the bridge at Nobold, the parishes of St. Chad, Condover, and Brace Meole converge. Hooker Gate is a hamlet in this township, consisting of a few cottages and a small Baptist Chapel, near to which collieries were worked till within the last few years. The land is the property of George Jonathan Scott, Esq. The principal residents are Thomas Savage, farmer, Whitley; John Mason, farm bailiff to G. J. Scott, Esq.; John Croft, shopkeeper; and William Juckes, beerhouse.

Woodcote and Horton, a township in the parish of St. Chad, three miles and a half from Shrewsbury, at the census of 1841 had 11 houses and 78 inhabitants. The chief landowners are Colonel Wingfield; John Walton, Gent.; Rev. John Yardley; and Mr. Thomas Woodward. The principal residents are Edward Kynaston, farmer; James Large, farmer; Thomas Lloyd, farmer; William Sherratt, farmer; John Walton, Gent.; John Wilding, blacksmith and wheelwright.