Lyneal | |
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Signpost and telephone box in the centre of Lyneal | |
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Country | England |
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Lyneal is a small village in the civil parish of Welshampton and Lyneal, in Shropshire, England.
Its earliest recorded name was Lunval. [1] It has also been known as Lineal. [2]
John Bartholomew described it in 1887 in an entry in his Gazetteer of the British Isles thus: "Lineal cum Colemere, eccl. dist., Ellesmere and Welsh Hampton pars., Shropshire, pop. 367; contains Lineal, hamlet, 3 miles S.E. of Ellesmere; P.O., called Lyneal." [2]
It was formerly part of the parish of Lyneal cum Colemere. According to Edward Cassey and Co.'s 1871 History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire,
The nearby St John the Evangelist Church Lyneal with Colemere has a memorial to the dead of World War I, recording the names of 11 men who died from the ecclesiastical parish of Lyneal with Colemere. [4]
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