Cressage

Other current and historical names

Cristesache

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

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°38'0"N 2°36'17"W
Eastings/Northings: 359153, 304144
OS Grid: SJ591041
Mapcode Local: GBR BQ.73CX
Mapcode Global: WH9DD.Y2PF

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

Cressage in historic gazetteers

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

Cressage, township and vil. with ry. sta., Cound par., S. Shropshire, on river Severn, 8 miles SE. of Shrewsbury, pop. 259; P.O., T.O.

Cressage in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Edric the wild
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Ranulf Peverel
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Ranulf Peverel
- Taxable Value: 1 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £5 10/- in 1066; £6 in 1070; £10 in 1086
- Households: 7 villagers; 11 smallholders; 4 cottagers; 8 slaves
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 4 men's ploughs (9 plough lands)
- Woodland: 200 pigs
- Other resources: 1 fishery

British Place Names

Cressage, Shropshire

Cressage is a village in Shropshire

Cressage in historic gazetteers

Cressage in the Domesday Book