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MORVILL: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

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"MORVILL, a parish in the hundred of STOTTESDEN, county of SALOP, 3 miles (W.byN.) from Bridgenorth, containing, with the chapelry of Aston Eyre, 430 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. -Weaver, Esq. was patron in -1797. The church is dedicated to St. George in it was originally a society of Secular canons, and subsequently one of Benedictine monks, a cell to the abbey of Shrewsbury; it was founded by Earl Roger, and at the dissolution had a revenue of £15."

" ASTON EYRE, a chapelry in the parish of MORVILL, hundred of STOTTESDEN, county of SALOP, 4j miles (W. by N.) from Bridgenorth, containing 63 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £1000 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Perpetual Curate of Morvill."

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

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