BASCHURCH: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

" BASCHURCH, a parish in the hundred of PIMHILL, county of SALOP, 8 miles (N.W. by N.) from Shrewsbury, containing 1277 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £10. 16., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The Ellesmere canal passes through the parish. Here is a school for teaching and clothing poor children, endowed with upwards of £ 140 per annum, arising from land bequeathed by Eleanor Harries, in 1716: there is also another small charity school. Vestiges of a Roman camp may be traced in the neighbourhood."

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

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