Links to Shropshire family history and local history resources online
Links last checked and page last updated: May 2026.
Shropshire: county-wide
Friends of Shropshire Archives.
Discovering Shropshire’s History: Archaeology section.
Discovering Shropshire’s History: History section.
A Vision of Britain Through Time: Shropshire.
FamilySearch Wiki: Shropshire, England Genealogy.
Parishmouse: Shropshire. Note: Website down on 14 and 15 May 2026, hopefully just a temporary glitch.
Shropshire Family History Hub (created by the Shropshire Family History Society)
Shropshire Family History Society.
Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society.
Salop (Transcriptions of the Shropshire Parish Register Society parish register abstracts).
Historical Directories of England & Wales: Shropshire.
British History Online: Victoria County History – Shropshire.
Victoria County History Shropshire (continuing the VCH project in Shropshire)
Soldiers of Shropshire Museum: Attestation Records.
Imperial War Museum: Search Memorial Records (results for Shropshire).
Shropshire Remembers (posts from 2014 to 2019 commemorating WW1).
Roll of Honour (Shropshire section).
Shropshire Historic Churches Trust.
Wellington, Shropshire Workhouses on The Workhouse website (which also has pages for the neighbouring Poor Law Unions of Wem, Market Drayton and Newport).
Turnpike Gates & Tollhouses, and a Map of Turnpike Roads in Shropshire (on the Turnpike Roads in England & Wales website).
Memories of Shropshire Facebook group.
Memories of Shropshire Quarries Facebook page.
Shropshire History – An archived version of this now defunct site.
Powysland Club (or the Montgomeryshire Historical Society; includes some materials relating to Shropshire)
Shropshire: Towns and Villages
Albrighton & District Historical Society.
Aqueduct Local History (Aqueduct village, Telford)
Bishop’s Castle Heritage Resource Centre.
Bridgnorth & District Historical Society: Bridgnorth Museum, Northgate.
Broseley Local History Society.
Cardington parish website. Note: Archived version of the final incarnation of the website, before The Parish of Cardington website (which does not contain all of the original local history material) fully replaced it.
Childs Ercall One Place Study.
Church Stretton History Group.
Cleobury Mortimer & District History Society. Note: No updates since Feb 2021.
Clive and Grinshill History Society.
Craven Arms and District History Group.
Dawley: Cinderloo Remembered.
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).
Hadnall & District History Group.
Hope & Bentlawnt History Group.
Ironbridge Gorge Community Archive (IGca) Flickr photostream.
Ironbridge Gorge. Note: Now operated by the National Trust. The original Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust website has been archived.
Ketley: Historic Ketley.
Ludlow Historical Research Group.
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: Friends of the Flaxmill Maltings. Note: Not updated since 2021.
Shrewsbury and Newport Canals Trust.
South West Shropshire Historical & Archaeological Society. Note: An archived version of the site from 2024, with limited functionality.
The Mount Residents’ Group (archived) – An archived version of this now defunct site.
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. Note: This group no longer exists; the archive of its website contains no images or useful information.
Waters Upton One-Place Study 
Hi. Myself being a lover of the Wrekin hill and a collector of old postcards and old pics of the Wrekin. Which is how i came across your blog. As the old drawing, picture you used.I presume, drawn from Waters Upton. Do you have the source for it? There many postcards taken from the villages surounding the hill, I hope to find one some day taken from your much loved Waters Upton. If I do, you can be sure i will send you a copy. Perhaps you could ask the locals if the know of an existing. My name is Gwyn Hartley, I live near Wellington, so not far from your village. Gwyn.
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Hi Gwyn, many thanks for this. I am not sure of the viewpoint from which the drawing of The Wrekin was created, the book in which it appears does not give any information on that, sadly. The book is The History and Antiquities of Shrewsbury, volume II. At the bottom the article in which the pic is used, in the Picture Credits, I have linked to a scan of the book at Google Books. That link takes you to the title page of the book – scroll up 2 or 3 pages from there and you will see the frontispiece, containing 15 illustrations including that of The Wrekin. Unfortunately, with 15 pictures on one page, each one is rather small!
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