Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FAULS

FAULS, a chapelry in Prees parish, Salop; near the Prees station of the Crewe and Shrewsbury railway, 4¼ miles NE of Wem. It was constituted in 1856; and its post town is Prees, under Shrewsbury. Rated property, £4, 354. Pop., 504. Houses, 100. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicn rage in the docese of Lichfield. Value, £50. Patron, the Vicar of Prees. The church is a very good edifice of brick.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Prees CP/AP       Shropshire AncC
Place: Fauls

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