Description
Cardeston or Cardiston, a township and a parish in Salop, on a tributary of the river Severn, 1 1/2 mile N of Yockleton station on the Shrewsbury and Welshpool joint (L. & N.W. and G.W.) railway, and 6 1/2 miles W of Shrewsbury. The parish includes Wattlesborough township, and its post town is Shrewsbury; money order office, Ford; telegraph office, Westbury. Acreage, with Alberbury, 7908 ; population, 832 ; of the ecclesiastical parish, 272. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £202 with residence. The church is small, rebuilt in 1749, and restored in 1844, when the octagonal western tower was erected.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
