Shropshire Archives and Libraries

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Archives[edit | edit source]

Shropshire Archives
Castle Gates
Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 2AQ UK
Telephone: 0345 678 9096
Email: archives@shropshire.gov.uk
Website
Printable short guides We’ve created a series of short guides to our most popular series of records and topics. Find out background information, key dates, types of documents and how to find relevant documents at Shropshire Archives.

Libraries[edit | edit source]


Shrewsbury Library
Castle Gates
Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 2AS UK
Telephone: 01743 255308
Email: shrewsbury.library@shropshire.gov.uk
Website

Museums[edit | edit source]


Bishops Castle Heritage Resource Centre
22 Chapel Yd
Bishops Castle, Shropshire SY9 5DE UK
Telephone: 1588 630556
Email: mail@bchrc.co.uk
Website
Local History Centre resources


Whitchurch Heritage Centre
12 St Mary’s Street
Whitchurch, Shropshire SY13 1QY UK
Telephone: 01948 664577
Email: info@whitchurch-heritage.co.uk
Website
History and Heritage Links

Civil Registration Offices[edit | edit source]

The General Register Office holds a central copy of all birth, marriage, and death registrations in England. These certificates can be ordered from their website (a login is required but it is free to register and search). However, in some cases research can be more efficient working with the smaller, more specific records collections of county/district registry offices.


Sometimes research might be required to determine where a town or parish was in a former registration district, or even its current district. For a list of the historic and current registration districts and their parishes, see UKBMD: Registration Districts in Shropshire.