Pitchford

Other current and historical names

Pichford
Piceforde

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

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 52°37'40"N 2°41'42"W
Eastings/Northings: 353052, 303572
OS Grid: SJ530035
Mapcode Local: GBR BL.7K68
Mapcode Global: WH8C7.K6VQ

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

Pitchford in historic gazetteers

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

Pitchford, par. and vil., Shropshire, 6 miles SE. of Shrewsbury, 1645 ac., pop. 214; near the vil. is Pitchford Hall, seat.

Pitchford in the Domesday Book

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

- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Edric the wild; Wulfric; Leofric
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Turold of Verley
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Turold of Verley
- Taxable Value: 3 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 8 shillings in 1066; 16 shillings in 1070; £2 in 1086
- Households: 1 villager; 3 smallholders; 3 slaves; 5 other
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 2 men's ploughs (5 plough lands)
- Woodland: 100 pigs

British Place Names

Pitchford, Shropshire

Pitchford is a hamlet in Acton Burnell, Shropshire

Pitchford in historic gazetteers

Pitchford in the Domesday Book