Take the virtual history tour - Maesbury Walks can be seen online, then go out and do the real thing. Lots of historical notes.

Maesbury Family History Message Board - searching for ancestors from the Maesbury area? Leave a note here for anyone else chasing the same people.



Wat's Dyke, built sometime before 800 AD, extends from Basingwerk Abbey, near Holywell, Flintshire to Maesbury, Shropshire.



The artificially straightened section of the River Morda, along Ball Lane, is the the earliest post-Roman hydraulic engineering in Britain.



In the Domesday Book, 1086, there was no Oswestry. The area was called the hundred of Mersete, a Saxon name which signifies 'the people of the border country'. It had as its centre the fortified village of Meresbury, modern day Maesbury.



In 1795 the Ellesmere Canal was opened through Maesbury, which became the main 'port' for the Oswestry area. It extended to Llanymynech where it connected with the Montgomeryshire Canal. The whole stretch is now known as the Montgomery Canal.


Census totals:
1841 - 117 dwellings, 484 people (4.14)
1851 - 112 dwellings, 466 people (4.16)
1861 - 123 dwellings, 446 people (3.62)
1871 - 130 dwellings, 522 people (4.01)
1881 - 121 dwellings, 530 people (4.38)
1891 - 121 dwellings, 505 people (4.17)
1901 - 114 dwellings, 453 people (3.97)
2006 - about 200 dwellings