Description
Bicton, a parish in Salop, on the river Severn, 4 miles NW by W of Shrewsbury. It was constituted an ecclesiastical parish in 1853, and a civil parish in 1885, from the parishes of St Alkmond, St Chad, and St Julian, Shrewsbury, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Montford Bridge, 1 mile W. Acreage, 5311; population of the civil parish, 1976 ; of the ecclesiastical, 559). The Isle and Onslow Hall are the chief residences; at the Isle are the remains of an ancient castle and chapel. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £160 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of St Chad. The church was erected in 1886.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
