Rushbury, Shropshire

Description
Rushbury, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands 4 miles E by S of Church Stretton, was once a market-town, and has a station on the Wellington and Craven Arms branch of the G.W.R. There is a post office at Wall-under-Haywood, under Church Stretton (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Church Stretton. The parish includes the townships of Rushbury, Stone Acton, Wall-under-Haywood, Longville-in-the Dale, Luschott, Stanway, and parts of Gretton and Eastwall. Acreage, 6304; population of the civil parish, 550; of the ecclesiastical, 464. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The parish is traversed by Watling Street and Ryknield Street, is supposed to have had a Roman station, and has yielded Roman coins. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £291 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1855. There is a Wesleyan chapel.