MORETON CORBET:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

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

"MORETON CORBET, a parish in the Whitchurch division of the hundred of BRADFORD (North), county of SALOP, 5 miles (S. E.) from Wem, containing, with the township of Preston Brockhurst, 235 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the Icing's books at £5. 3. 6., and in the patronage of Sir A. Corbett, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, is a neat structure, containing some fine ancient monuments of the Corbet family, whose magnificent mansion, built in the time of Elizabeth, was burned in the civil war, by a detachment from Cromwell's army, which was stationed at Wem; the remains have been converted into workshops, &c."

[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2012]

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