Buildwas, Shropshire

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Buildwas is a village in Shropshire

Other current and historical names

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

Buildwas in historic gazetteers

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

Buildwas, par. and ry. junction, S. Shropshire, on river Severn, 4 miles N. of Much Wenlock, 2128 ac., pop. 259; has fine ruins of a Cistercian abbey (1135); there is also an elegant iron bridge over the Severn. In the par. is Buildwas Park.

Buildwas in the Domesday Book

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

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