UPTON MAGNA: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

"UPTON MAGNA, a parish in the Wellington division of the hundred of BRADFORD (South), county of SALOP, 5 miles (E.) from Shrewsbury, containing, with the extra-parochial liberty of Haughmond Demesne, 667 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at & 12. The Rev. Corbet Browne was patron, in 1808. The church is dedicated to St. Lucia. The Shrewsbury 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]