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MINDTOWN: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

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"MINDTOWN, a parish in the hundred of PURSLOW, county of SALOP, 5 miles (E.N.E.) from Bishop's Castle, containing 31 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £4. 13. 4., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. The Earl of Powis was patron in 1820. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist."

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

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