Description
Clunbury, a village, a township, and a parish in Salop. The township lies on the river Clun, 2 1/4 miles NW of Broome station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4 E of Clun. The parish contains also the townships of Clunton, Kempton, and Obley, and has a post office under Aston-on-Clun (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Clun. Acreage, 7624; population, 908. Purslow Hall is the chief residence. There is a British camp in the neighbourhood. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford ; gross value, £245. Patron, the Earl of Powis. The church is Norman, and was restored in 1881. There is a chapel of ease, and a Primitive Methodist chapel in Clunton township.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
