Description
Cockshutt, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Ellesmere parish, Salop. The village is 4 miles SE of Ellesmere, 5 N of Basehurch station on the G.W.R., and 5 1/4 W of Wem. It has a post office under Ellesmere; money order and telegraph office, Ellesmere. The eccleaiastical parish includes also the townships of Croesmere, English Frankton, Kenwick Stockett and Whettall, Kenwick's Park, and Kenwick's Wood. It was constituted in 1872. Population, 701. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £160. Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church was rebuilt in 1777, and renovated in 1886. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
