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ALBERBURY: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

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"ALBERBURY (or ABBERBURY), a parish, comprising the chapelry of Wollaston, and the townships of Alberbury, Benthal with Shrawardine, Eyton, and Rowton with Amaston, in the hundred of FORD, county of SALOP, and the townships of Criggion, Middleton, and Uppington, in the hundred of CAWRSE, and the township of Bauseley in the hundred of DEYTHUR, county of MONTGOMERY (Wales), and containing 1946 inhabitants, of which number, 332 are in the township of Alberbury, 8 miles (W.) from Shrewsbury. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £5. 10., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of All Souls' College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The Roman Watling-street passes through the parish, which is partially bounded by the river Severn. There are some remains of a castle, built in the reign of Henry II., by Fulk Fitz- Warine, who founded an abbey for Black monks of the order of Grandmont, vestiges of which may still be traced about a mile from the castle : on the suppression of Alien priories, Henry VI. gave the site to the college of All Souls', Oxford, to which it still belongs."

" BENTHAL, a township in the parish of ALBERBURY, hundred of FORD, county of SALOP. The population is returned with Shrawardine."

" EYTON, a township in that part of the parish of ALBERBURY, which is in the hundred of FORD, county of SALOP, 7 miles (W.) from Shrewsbury, containing 65 inhabitants."

" ROWTON, a township in that part of the parish of ALBERBURY, which is in the hundred of FORD, county of SALOP, 7 miles (W.) from Shrewsbury, containing, with the township of Amaston, 227 inhabitants."

" SHRAWARDINE, a township in that part of the parish of ALBERBURY, which is in the hundred of FORD, county of SALOP, 6 miles (N. W.) from Shrewsbury, containing, with Benthal, 48 inhabitants."

" WOLLASTON, a chapelry in that part of the parish of ALBERBURY, which is in the hundred of FORD, county of SALOP, 10 miles (W.) from Shrewsbury, containing 441 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and £1400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Alberbury. The chapel is dedicated to St. Michael."

[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831] (unless otherwise stated)

[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2015]