Ford, Shropshire :: The British Place Names Website

Other current and historical names

Forde
Butlane Head

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

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°43'3"N 2°52'8"W
Eastings/Northings: 341396, 313673
OS Grid: SJ413136
Mapcode Local: GBR BC.1Y1T
Mapcode Global: WH8BK.WYZK

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

Ford in historic gazetteers

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

Ford, par., N. Shropshire, on river Severn, 5½ miles NW. of Shrewsbury, 1773 ac., pop. 373; P.O.; contains Ford House.

Ford in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Earl Edwin
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Earl Roger of Shrewsbury
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Earl Roger of Shrewsbury
- Taxable Value: 15 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £9 in 1066; £34 in 1086
- Households: 50 villagers; 14 smallholders; 20 slaves; 6 female slaves
- Plough Teams: 10 lord's ploughs; 29 men's ploughs
- Mills: 1, value 4 shillings
- Other resources: 0.5 fisheries

British Place Names

Ford, Shropshire

Ford is a village in Shropshire

Ford in historic gazetteers

Ford in the Domesday Book