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In the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO5587/tugford/] [accessed 30 June 2015] Thonglands must have been a hide of Tugford, whose lord in 1086 was Rainer of Thonglands, as Eyton (1857) suggests, and he mentions a chapel here: "Though Thonglands is now in the Parish of Munslow, it once had a Church of its own, subject perhaps to Munslow. In 1291 the Church of 'Thungelond or Thukelond, in Wenlock Deanery, was not taxed, as being of less than £4. annual value. [...] This Chapel is not mentioned in the Valor of 1534, its suppression was therefore anterior to the Reformation; yet its former existence would seem still to be known", continues Eyton (ibid.), adding a list of early incumbents that covers from the late-13th century though to the early-15th century. The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 10, 1998), with Eyton as main source, notes: "Thonglands was a separate parish with its own church until 1442. [...] There was a parish church by 1280 at THONGLANDS, which had its own rector [...] and burial rights until 1425 or later. [...] Little Poston probably formed a detached part of Thonglands parish. [...] The advowson seems to have descended with the reputed manor. [...] The small church, built within the manorhouse moat, may have been in occasional use when George I's arms were hung in it, but by the 1830s it was ruinous and by 1883 had gone." The entry for Thonglands [ref. SO549892] in the Shropshire Deserted Villages site [http://shropshirehistory.com/other/desertedvillages.htm] [accessed 30 June 2015] reads: "Deserted medieval village recorded as Tangelanda in 1126. There are vague earthworks including hollow ways and ridge and furrow." Deserted medieval village recorded as Tangelanda in 1126. There are vague earthworks including hollow ways and ridge and furrow.