Pitchford, Shropshire

Description
Pitchford, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands on an affluent of the river Severn, near Watling Street, 2 miles S by W of Berrington station on the G.W.R,, and 6 SSE of Shrewsbury. It takes its name from a bituminous spring. Post town, Shrewsbury; money order and telegraph office, Acton Bumell. Acreage of parish, 1640; population, 231. Pitchford Hall, a curious old timber and plaster house of the 16th century, was for many years the seat of the Otley family, and passed in 1807 to the Earl of Liverpool, who entertained the Princess Victoria and the Duchess of Kent here in 1832. It passed by marriage to the Cotes family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £140 with residence. The church is Early English, and contains a carved oak effigy of a crusader and monuments of the Otleys.