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CLUNGUNFORD: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

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"CLUNGUNFORD, a parish in the hundred of PURSLOW, county of SALOP, 9 miles (S. E. by S.) from Bishop's Castle, containing, with the extra-parochial liberty of Dinmore, 486 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £16, and in the patronage of John Rocke, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Cuthbert. The trustees of Francis Walker, in 1682, founded and endowed a charity school, the income of which, increased by sundry other bequests in 1725 and 1776, amounts to £46 per annum, for teaching the children of Clungunford, and the adjoining township of Broome, in the parish of Hopesay;. about eighty are educated upon this foundation. The river Clun and the Roman Watling-street intersect this parish from north to south. In the neighbourhood are two tumuli, and limestone in abundance."

" DINMORE, a liberty (extra-parochial), locally in the parish of Clungunford, hundred of PURSLOW, county of SALOP, containing 12 inhabitants."

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

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