Description
Church-Preen, a village and a parish in Salop, 3 miles W of Presthope station on the Wellington and Craven Arms branch of the G.W.R., and 6 SW of Much Wenlock. Post town, Leebotwood, under Shrewsbury; money order and telegraph office, Much Wenlock. Acreage, 1174; population, 113. Church-Preen manor-house is a modern Tudor mansion, built in 1872 on the site of a Cluniac monastery. It is situated in an extensive park. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £60. The church is ancient, and was originally connected with Wenlock Abbey. It contains a carved oak pulpit of the year 1641, and was restored in 1866.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
