Ercall Magna, Shropshire

Description
Ercall Magna or High Ercall, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands near the river Roden and the Shrewsbury Canal, 2 miles WSW of Crudgington station on the G.W.R., and 6 NW of Wellington; is called High Ercall, has a post and money order office of that name under Wellington, Salop ; telegraph office, Crudgington railway station. The parish includes also the hamlets of Cold Hatton, Cotwall and Moortown, Crudgington, Ellerdine, Haughton,Isombridge, Osbaston, Poynton, Roden, Rowton, Slafford, Sleap, and Tern and Walton. Acreage, 11,392, including 45 of water; population of civil parish, 1597; of ecclesiastical, 1711. The manor belonged anciently to the Ercalaws, and had an eel-fishery at Domesday. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield ; net value, £206 with residence. Patron, Lord Barnard. The church is Early English, was much injured in the Civil War, and was restored in 1864. Rowton, including the hamlets of Cold Hatton, Ellerdine, and Rowton, is a separate benefice. There is a mission church for Crudgington, Slafford, and Sleap, and an hospital for six old men.