Links to Shropshire family history and local history resources online

Links last checked and page last updated: Oct 2023.

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Shropshire: county-wide

Shropshire Archives.

Friends of Shropshire Archives.

Discovering Shropshire’s History: Search Our Collections.

Discovering Shropshire’s History: History section.

A Vision of Britain Through Time: Shropshire.

GENUKI: Shropshire.

FamilySearch Wiki: Shropshire, England Genealogy.

Parishmouse: Shropshire.

Shropshire Family History Society.

Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society.

Salop (Transcriptions of the Shropshire Parish Register Society parish register abstracts).

Shropshire BMD.

Historical Directories of England & Wales: Shropshire.

British History Online: Victoria County History – Shropshire.

Victoria County History Shropshire (continuing the VCH project in Shropshire)

Imperial War Museum: Search Memorial Records (results for Shropshire).

Shropshire Historic Churches Trust.

Shropshire Railway Society.

Memories of Shropshire Facebook group.

Memories of Shropshire Quarries Facebook page.

Shropshire History – An archived version of this now defunct site.

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Shropshire: Towns and Villages

Albrighton & District Historical Society.

Aqueduct Local History (Aqueduct village, Telford)

Bishop’s Castle Heritage Resource Centre.

Bridgnorth Lists.

Bridgnorth & District Historical Society: Bridgnorth Museum, Northgate.

Broseley Local History Society.

Cardington parish website.

Childs Ercall One Place Study.

Cleobury Mortimer & District History Society. Note: No updates since Feb 2021.

Clive and Grinshill History Society.

Craven Arms and District History Group.

Dawley History Group.

Ditton Priors Local History Group Facebook page. Note: No updates since Feb 2020.

Ercall Magna: A brief journey through time.

Four Parishes Heritage Group (Highley, Billingsley, Stottesdon & Kinlet).

Hodnet – North Shropshire: Local History.

Ironbridge Gorge Community Archive (IGca) Flickr photostream.

Ironbridge Gorge Museums.

Leintwardine History Society.

Loppington Local History.

Ludlow Historical Research Group.

Myddle.net: Myddle History.

Newport History Society.

Oswestry Archives.

Oswestry Family & Local History Group. Note: The group also has an active Facebook group.

Oswestry & Border History & Archaeology Group.

Ruyton XI Towns Local History Society.

Ruyton eleventownshistory.

Shrewsbury Local History.

Shrewsbury: Friends of the Flaxmill Maltings.

Shrewsbury and Newport Canals Trust.

South West Shropshire Historical & Archaeological Society.

Stirchley Church and Rectory.

The Mount Residents’ Group (archived) – An archived version of this now defunct site.

Wellington History Group.

Whitchurch History and Archaeology Group.

Withington Parish Website – May 2020: Local history resources have gone, but the site home page has a parish history.

Wrekin Historical Group.

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