Description
Shelve, a hamlet and a parish in Salop. The hamlet is situated on ground nearly 1200 feet above sea-level, 2 miles NE of the boundary with Wales, 2 W of the Stiper Stones Ridge, 5 SW of Minsterley, and 7 N of Bishops Castle, and was once a market-town. It has a post office, called Gravel, under Shrewsbury; money order and telegraph office, Minsterley. The parish comprises also (for civil purposes only) the township of Mucklewick. Acreage of the civil parish, 1846; population, 163; of the ecclesiastical, 111. Lead mines were worked by the Romans, and are still worked to some extent. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £69. The church was rebuilt in 1839, and was restored in 1884.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
