Description
Adderley, a township and a parish in Salop. The township lies on the Ducker brook, a tributary of the Weaver river, 4 miles N of Market-Drayton, and has a station on the G.W.R., 181 miles from London. The parish includes also the townships of Shavington and Spoonley. Acreage, 2870 (including 24 of water); population of the civil parish, 361; of the ecclesiastical, 468. Adderley Hall is the seat of the Corbet family, and Shavington Hall that of the Heywood-Tensdale family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £666. The church was rebuilt in 1801; it has a chapel and several monuments and brasses. Adderley has a post and telegraph office.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
