Description
Aston-Botterell, a village, a township, and a parish in Salop, under the Clee Hills, near the river Rea, 6 1/2 miles NNW of Cleobury-Mortimer, and 9 NE of Ludlow. It contains the hamlet of Bold, and its post town is Bridgnorth; the money order office is at Burwarton, about a mile N. Acreage, 2280; population, 183. The manor belonged anciently to the Botterells, and now to the Duke of Cleveland. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; value, £345. Patron, Lord Barnard. The church tower contains a canopied altar-tomb to one of the Botterells. The tower was rebuilt in 1884.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
