Alberbury, Shropshire

Description
Alberbury, a township and a village in Salop, and an extensive parish partly in that county and partly in Montgomeryshire. The township lies near the Severn, 3 miles N of Wcstbury station on the Shrewsbury and Welshpool line (G.W. & L. & N.W.R.), and 9 W by N of Shrewsbury, and has a post office under Shrewsbury; telegraph office, West-bury railway station. Loton Park, the seat of the Leighton family, is adjacent. It is a handsome Jacobean mansion with an extensive and well-wooded deer park; in the grounds are scanty ruins of Alberbury and Wattleborough castles. A priory for Benedictine monks was founded at Alberbury by Fulke Fitzwarine about 1225, and was given by Henry VI. to All Souls' College, Oxford. The site is now occupied by a farm called White Abbey. The parish of Alberbury comprises the townships of Alberbury, Eyton, Little Shrawardine, Benthall, Rowton, Amaston, and a portion of the township of Ford, in Shropshire, and Bauseley in Montgomeryshire. Acreage, 7908; population, 832. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £280. Patron, All Souls' College, Oxford. The church, erected on the site of a Saxon collegiate church, is an ancient stone edifice, and contains monuments, brasses, and memorial windows to the Leighton and Lyster families, and others. Glyn, a hamlet, was the birthplace of old Parr. Rowton Castle, with a fine park, formerly a seat of the Lyster family, is now the property of Lord Rowton. On Bauseley Hill are the remains of a Roman camp. The township of Winnington, formerly a part of this parish, is now part of the parish of Great Wollaston.