Description
Hanwood, Great, a village, a township, and a parish ia Salop, on the river Bea, 4 miles SW of Shrewsbury. There is a station on the Shrewsbury and Welshpool Joint (L. & N.W. and G.W.) railway, and a post and money order office under Shrewsbury, both of the name of Hanwood; the telegraph office is at the railway station. Acreage, 422; population, 293. There is a large flour mill, and also a barytes grinding mill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; value, £174. The church is a brick structure, of about the year 1700, and was restored in 1856.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
