Albrighton

Other current and historical names

Donington

Built-Up Area: Albrighton
Parish/Community: Donington
Unitary Authority: Shropshire
Region: West Midlands

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°38'16"N 2°16'29"W
Eastings/Northings: 381500, 304500
OS Grid: SJ815045
Mapcode Local: GBR 07B.MNZ
Mapcode Global: WHBFJ.1Y1K

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Albrighton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Albrighton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Albrighton.-- hundred, par., seat, and vil. with ry. sta., S. Shropshire, 5 miles SE. of Shiffnal, 29,964 ac., pop. 3754; par., 3424 ac., pop. 1212; P.O., T.O.

Albrighton in the Domesday Book

A village in Alnodestreu hundred, in the county of Shropshire.

- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Algar; Godgyth of Albrighton
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Norman the hunter
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Norman the hunter
- Taxable Value: 1 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 1/- in 1066; 16 shillings in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 3 smallholders; 13 slaves
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 1 men's plough (4 plough lands)
- Woodland: 100 pigs

British Place Names

Albrighton, Shropshire

Albrighton is a village in Shropshire

Albrighton in historic gazetteers

Albrighton in the Domesday Book