Description
Mainstone, a township in Salop, and a parish mainly in. Salop but partly in Montgomeryshire. The township lies on Offa's Dyke, 4 1/4 miles W by S of Bishops Castle, and 7 1/4SSE of Montgomery. The parish comprises also the townships of Edenhope, Knuck, and Reilth in Salop, and the township of Castlewright in Montgomeryshire. Post town, Bishops Castle (R.S.O.) Acreage of the Salop portion, 4993; population, 217; of the Montgomeryshire portion, 1375; population, 132. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £230. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a good building, with a belfry.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
