Wroxeter, Shropshire

Description
Wroxeter, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands on Watling Street and on the river Severn, 3 miles SSE of Upton Magna station on the G.W.R. and L. & N.W.R., 4 W of the Wrekin, and 6 SE by E of Shrewsbury. Wroxeter, the Roman Uriconinm, has most interesting remains of a Roman town once 3 miles in circuit, and defended by a rampart 9 feet thick, and has yielded great numbers and great variety of interesting Roman relics. It was for a considerable time the capital of the Cornavii, and suffered devastation by the Saxons and the Danes. It has a post office under Shrewsbury; money order and telegraph office, Uppington. The parish includes five townships, and comprises 5953 acres; population of the civil parish, 535; of the ecclesiastical, 463. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lich-field; gross value, £263 with residence. The church is a fine Norman edifice, and contains some interesting monuments of the 16th century.