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"ALBERBURY, a parish in the hundred of Ford, in county Shropshire, and the hundreds of Cawse and Deythur, in the county of Montgomery, North Wales, 9 miles to the N.W. of Shrewsbury railway station. It is situated on the river Severn, which forms part of its boundary, and on the Roman road called Watling Street, which runs through it. It contains the chapelries of Great Wollaston and Criggion, and the townships of Bauseley Alberbury, Benthal with Shrawardine Eyton, Rowton with Amaston, and several others."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
CRUGGION (CRUGION), a chapelry in that part of the parish of ALBERBURY which is in the lower division of the hundred of CAWRSE, county of MONTGOMERY, NORTH WALES, 6 miles (N. E.) frOm Welsh-pool, containing 173 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, endowed with £1000 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Alberbury. The chapel is a neat edifice of brick, situated not far from the banks of the Severn. A National school is supported by subscription, in which about forty children are instructed. Methuselah Jones, in 1727, bequeathed a rent-charge of £3. 3. for providing annually ten coats for poor persons of this place. On the loftiest of the Breidden hills, in this chapelry, an obelisk was erected, in 1781, in commemoration of the distinguished naval services of Admiral Lord Rodney, particularly of his defeat of the powerful French fleet in the West Indies, commanded by Count de Grasse. The inhabitants are separately assessed for the maintenance of their own poor : the average annual expenditure is £ 92. 1. ( A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833 )
MIDDLETON, a township in that part of the parish of ALBERBURY which is in the lower division of the hundred of CAWRSE, county of MONTGOMERY, NORTH WALES, 6 miles (E. by S.) from Welshpool, containing 100 inhabitants.( A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833 )
UPPINGTON, a township in that part of the parish of ALBERBURY which is in the lower division of the hundred of CAWRSE, county of MONTGOMERY, NORTH WALES, containing 132 inhabitants. The average annual expenditure for the maintenance of the poor is £64. 0. ( A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833 )
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