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BITTERLEY: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

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" BITTERLEY, a parish partly in the hundred of MUNSLOW, but chiefly in the hundred of OVERS, county of SALOP, 4 miles (E.N.E.) from Ludlow, containing 1064 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £18. 6. 3., and in the patronage of Sir J. D. King, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. John Newborough, in 1712, gave £400, now producing £34 per annum, toward the support of a free grammar school."

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

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