Clive, Shropshire

Description
Clive, a village, a township, and a parish in Salop. The village stands 1 mile NE of Yorton station on the L. & N.W.R., 3 miles S of Wem, and 7 N of Shrewsbury. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Shrewsbury. The parish comprises 1500 acres; population, 376. San Saw is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £130 with residence. The church, dedicated to All Saints, originally a chapel of ease to St Mary's, Shrewsbury, is old, was restored in 1849, and more recently with additions at considerable expense in 1885-87 and 1892-94. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. Quarries of freestone of the New Red Sandstone formation are worked, and there have been, both anciently and within recent years, workings of copper from impregnation in the sandstone.