Shrawardine, Shropshire

Description
Shrawardine, a parish in Salop, on the river Severn, 6 1/2 miles WNW of Shrewsbury. It has a post office under Shrewsbury; money order and telegraph office, Montford Bridge. Acreage, 2000; population, 166. The property belongs to the Earl of Powis. A castle was built by Count Alan soon after the Norman Conquest, was long held under the Crown by the Fitz-AIans for defence against the Welsh, was sold in the tune of Queen Elizabeth to Lord Chancellor Bromley, was occupied by the Royalists in the time of the Civil War, and has left some remains. A modern building, now occupied as a farmhouse, bears its name, and a considerable lake is near it. The living is a rectory, annexed to Montford. The church was rebuilt in 1649, the former church having been destroyed with the castle in 1645. It contains an ancient font, Shrawardine, Little, a township in Alberbury parish, Salop, adjacent to the W side of Shrawardine parish.