Rodington, Shropshire

Description
Rodington, a township and a parish in Salop. The township lies on the river Roden and the Shropshire Canal, 2 miles N of Walcot station on the G.W.R. and L. & N.W.R., and 5 WNW of Wellington. It has a post office under Shrewsbury; money order office, High Ercall; telegraph office, Upton Magna. The parish contains also the township of Sugden and part of Somerwood. Acreage, 2218; population of the civil parish, 539; of the ecclesiastical, 425. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £255 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church was rebuilt in 1851. There is aWesleyan chapel at Bodington, and a Primitive Methodist chapel at Somerwood. A cemetery was formed in 1884.