Shropshire, Alberbury, Wollaston, Winnington

ALBERBURY, a parish in the hundred of Ford, in county Shropshire (Salop), and the hundreds of Cawse and Deythur, in the county of Montgomery, North Wales, 9 miles to the N.W. of Shrewsbury railway station. It contains the chapelries of Great Wollaston and Criggion, and the townships of Bauseley Alberbury, Benthal with Shrawardine Eyton, Rowton with Amaston, and several others. Wollaston is on the Welsh border 9 miles to the west of Shrewsbury on the road to and Welsh Pool.

Wollaston is a tiny rural parish on the Welsh border to the west of Shrewsbury. It is cut by the A458 Shrewsbury to Welshpool road. Without a doubt, the parish's most famous character is "Old" Thomas Parr.
A real personality who lived through a period when the link between the Shropshire countryside and the town merchants was a vital one. Parr was one of very few ‘ordinary’ people whose name is still known today.
The Christian name of this venerable patriarch was Thomas, and he was born at Winnington, in the parish of Alberbury, Shropshire, in 1483. His father, John Parr, was an agricultural labourer, and Thomas throughout his long life followed the same occupation.
Thomas Parr (or Parre), among Englishmen known as "old Parr," was a poor farmer's servant, born in 1483.
Thomas Parr, it is alleged, lived to the extraordinary age of 152. Old Parr. Thomas Parr lived in the reigns of ten sovereigns; He was a husbandman, born at Salop in 1483, and died 1635, aged 152 years. "Old Parr", or "Old Tom Parr".