Whittington, Shropshire

Description
Whittington, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands on the Holyhead road, near the river Perry and the Shropshire Union Canal, 2 1/2 miles ENE of Oswestry, was once a market-town, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Oswestry, and stations on the Cambrian railway and the G.W.R. The parish includes also the townships of Berghill, Daywell, Ebuall, Fernhill, Henlle, Hindford, and Frankton. Acreage, 8666; population of the civil parish, 2103; of the ecclesiastical, 1571. There is a parish council consisting of fifteen members. Balaton, Belmont, Fernhill, and Park Hall are chief residences. Park Hall is a handsome Elizabethan gabled timber mansion, with a chapel attached to the west end. An ancient moated castle of Roger Montgomery was here, is supposed to date from the 9th century, passed to the Peverells and the Fitzwarines, and is still represented by parts of five towers and of the gateway. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Asaph; net value, £375 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1804, partially restored in 1861 and fully restored in 1894. The parish includes part of the ecclesiastical parishes of Hengoed and Welsh Frankton. There are Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.