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CHETTON: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.
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"CHETTON, a parish in the hundred of STOTTESDEN, county of SALOP, 4 miles (S. W. by W.) from Bridgenorth, containing, with the chapelry of Loughton, 573 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, consolidated in 1760 with those of Deuxhill and Glazeley, in the archdeaconry of .Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £11. The church, dedicated to St. Giles, has a Norman tower; the chancel is in the early English style, and the nave is of modern erection. There is a bequest of about £8 per annum for teaching poor children, which, with additional subscriptions, is applied to the instruction of about seventy children."
" LOUGHTON, a chapelry in the parish of CHETTON, hundred of STOTTESDEN, county of SALOP, 9 miles (N.E. by E.) from Ludlow, containing 119 inhabitants."
[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831](unless otherwise stated)
[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2015]