Kinlet, Shropshire

Description
Kinlet, a parish in Salop, 3 1/2 miles SW by W of Highley station on the Severn Valley branch of the G.W.R., and 4 1/4 NNE of Cleobury Mortimer. It contains the townships of Button Oak, Kingswood, and Eamwood, and has a post and money order office under Bewdley; telegraph office, Highley railway station. Acreage, 8164; population of the civil parish, 558; of the ecclesiastical, 433. By the Parish Councils Act the parish was divided into two wards, Button Oak and Kinlet. Kinlet Hall is a handsome mansion situated in an extensive park which is remarkable for its fine oaks. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £312. The church is cruciform and ancient, was restored in 1893 at a cost of over £3000, and contains monuments of the Blonnts and the Childes of Kinlet, and some good stained glass.