LEE BOTWOOD: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

"LEE BOTWOOD, a parish in the hundred of CONDOVER, county of SALOP, 4 miles (N. N. E.) from Church Stretton, containing 204 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, united to that of Longnor, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Archdeacon Corbett. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, once belonged to the abbey of Haughmond. Coal and limestone are obtained in the parish, through which runs a small brook called the Rae."

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

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