Links to Shropshire family history and local history resources online
Links last checked and page last updated: Oct 2023.
Shropshire: county-wide
Friends of Shropshire Archives.
Discovering Shropshire’s History: Search Our Collections.
Discovering Shropshire’s History: History section.
A Vision of Britain Through Time: Shropshire.
FamilySearch Wiki: Shropshire, England Genealogy.
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)
Imperial War Museum: Search Memorial Records (results for Shropshire).
Shropshire Historic Churches Trust.
Memories of Shropshire Facebook group.
Memories of Shropshire Quarries Facebook page.
Shropshire History – An archived version of this now defunct site.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shrewsbury and Newport Canals Trust.
South West Shropshire Historical & Archaeological Society.
The Mount Residents’ Group (archived) – An archived version of this now defunct site.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.
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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