One of the most common historical units of administration between the 11th to mid-19th century were called hundreds[3] (also known as wapentakes), and these were useful to reveal regional differences on a national scale over a large time period.

[5] In 1612 the village was initially founded by 3 farms and 5 cottages,[5] but as industry spread at the beginning of the 19th century, the population of the settlement grew to 333 in 1881,[6] where it peaked.

Until the 19th century, the parish only contained 4 main farmsteads and a small number of cottages nearby the church,[5] but this changed when the population increased and affected the settlement pattern.

Due to the industry taking place in the surrounding area houses were converted into cottages for the workers in the collieries[5] and ironworks.

The increasing size of the settlement led to a licensed ale house, named the Rose and Crown, and a village shop by the early 1840s.

[8] John Marius Wilson,[9] Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) wrote of how Stirchley was a Parish with a population of 310 and had a railway station.

[5] Stirchley was developed as the population was increasing and there was a demand for more housing, amenities and facilities such as the railway station in nearby Telford in 1986.

However, there are current proposals being made to reduce the number of parliamentary constituencies in England from 533 to 502,[15] and this will affect the local council or electoral division/ward boundaries of some places.

[6] From the beginning of the 20th century there were not any large scale demographic variations until the census in 1951 revealed 66 people died,[6] most likely from the first and second World Wars.