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BOBBINGTON, Shropshire

"BOBBINGTON, a parish in the southern division of the hundred of Seisdon, in the county of Stafford, and extending also into the hundred of Brimstree, in the county of Salop, 6 miles to the E. of Bridgnorth. It includes the hamlet of Halfpenny Green. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, of the value of £97, in the patronage of T. Whitmore, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is an endowed free school, founded by Hannah Cobbett in 1792, which has an income of £42 per annum. The other parochial charities amount to about £40 a year."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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