Burford, Shropshire

Description
Burford, a township and a parish in Salop. The township lies on the river Teme and the Knighton Canal, 1 mile W of Tenbury, and had formerly a market. Post town, Tenbury, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1558; population, 356; population of ecclesiastical parish, first portion, St Mary, with Boraston and Nash, 484; second portion, with Whitton, 354; third portion, St Mary, 395. The parish contains also the townships of Boraston, Nash, Tilsop, Weston, Whatmore, and Whitton. The manor was for generations in the possession of the Cornewall family. Burford House, erected in the reign of George II., is the manor-house. Tenbury gasworks are in this parish. The living is divided into three portions in the diocese of Hereford: the first portion is a vicarage united with the perpetual curacies of Boraston and Nash, the second portion a rectory united with the perpetual curacy of Whitton, the third portion a rectory; net value of the first, £360 with residence, second £299 with residence, third £336 with residence. The township of Stoke, which in 1884 was annexed to the parish of Greete for civil purposes, is in this parish for ecclesiastical purposes. The mother church is Early English with later additions, and consists of chancel, nave, and a low massive western tower; it contains a Perpendicular font, a piscina, a triptych of 1588, many monuments to the Cornewall family, and one to Princess Elizabeth, daughter of John of Gaunt, who married Sir John Cornewall, Lord Fanhope. There are churches also in Boraston, Whitton, and Nash.