CLAVERLEY: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

"CLAVERLEY, a parish in the Hales Owen division of the hundred of BRIMSTREE, county of SALOP, 5 miles (E.) from Bridgenorth, containing 1305 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, within the iurisdiction of the court of the royal peculiar of Bridgenorth, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £ 1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Thomas Whitmote, Esq. The church is dedicated to All Saints. A free school was founded, in -1659, by Richard Dovey, who endowed it with an estate for the education of fourteen boys; and, in 1702, John Sanders devised £5 a year for clothing them. Richard Bennett, in 1794, left £100 in aid of .this charity, the total annual income being £36. 5. There are three small tenements appropriated for poor families."

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

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