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HORDLEY: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

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"HORDLEY, a parish in the hundred of PIMHILL county of SALOP, 3 miles (S.S.W.) from Ellesmere, containing 308 inhabitants. The living, is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £3. 19. 2. J. K. Powell, Esq. was patron in 1803. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The Ellesmere canal passes through the parish."

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

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