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Harrison, Harrod & Co’s Directory and Gazetteer of Staffordshire and Shropshire with Dudley in Worcestershire.
WATERS UPTON is a parish and village, 7½ miles from Newport, in South Bradford Hundred, Wellington Union, North Shropshire. The church of St. Michael is a stone building; has a wooden turret with three bells. The living is a rectory; the Rev. J. S. Halke , M.A., is the incumbent.
Letters are received through Wellington, which is also the nearest money order office.
Halke, Rev. J. S.
Taylor, John, Esq.
TRADERS, & c.
Bennett, Thomas, shoemaker
Fletcher, Thomas, carpenter
Groucock, Elizabeth, farmer
James, John, farmer
Jones, George, tailor
Lloyd, William, farmer
Martin, Mary Ann, Swan Inn
Matthews, Emma, farmer
Morgan, John, surgeon
Morgan, William, farmer
Owen, John, beer retailer
Rider, John, farmer
Ridgway, James, blacksmith
Titley, Thomas, butcher
Tudor, Samuel, bricklayer
[Wellington]
Rural Posts.—Rural Post Messengers are despatched at 5.30 a.m. to the following places, leaving such places in the evening at the times stated after each:—Pain’s Lane 5.40, Oaken-Gates 6.0, Ketley 6.30; High-Ercall 4.30, Admaston 6.30; Uppington 5.0, Wrockwardine 6.30; Bolas-Magna 4.25, Waters-Upton 5.5, Eyton 6.15; Kynnersley 4.45, Preston 5.15; Trench-Lane 5.40, Hadley 6.25. The box at each sub-office closes five minutes before the time of despatch.
Main entry from page 774 🡕 of the directory; rural posts entry from page 551 🡕. Transcribed from a copy viewed online at FamilySearch (follow the links for images of each page; you will need to have a FamilySearch account, which is free, and log in). Note: Currently (Dec 2025) the pages I have linked to on the FamilySearch website are not being displayed (Image Restricted); they might be visible to those logged in via a FamilySearch Centre or Affiliate Library.
Waters Upton One-Place Study 