Chirbury, Shropshire

Description
Chirbury, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands in a fine vale, near the Welsh boundary and Offa's Dyke, 3 miles NE of Montgomery, and 6 1/2 SE of Welshpool, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) It is the Cyricbyrig of the Saxons; has remains of an Augustinian abbey founded in the time of Henry III. by Robert de Boulers, and gave the title of Chirbury to the famous Lord Herbert. It is the head of a petty sessional division. The parish contains also the townships of Dudston, Hockleton, Marton, Middleton, Priestweston, Rorrington, Stockton, Timberth, Walcot, Wilmington, Winsbury, and Wotherton. Acreage, 11,317 ; population of the civil parish, 1311; of the ecclesiastical, 583. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford ; net value, £203 with residence. The church belonged to the abbey, and was restored in 1872. The vicarages of Middleton and Marton are separate benefices.