Condover, Shropshire

Description
Condover, a village, a township, and a parish in Salop. The village stands on an affluent of the river Severn, 4 1/2 miles S of Shrewsbury, and has a station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint (L. & N.W.R. and G.W.R.) railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Shrewsbury. The parish includes also the townships of Annscroft, Dorrington. Great and Little Ryton, Little Lyth and Westley, Great Lyth, and Wheatall, also the hamlets of Allfield, Bomere, Boreton, Chatford, Norton, Gonsall, and the Sytch. Acreage of the civil parish, 7512; population, 1679; of the ecclesiastical, 871. Condover Hall, situated in an extensive park, was built about 1590 by Chief-Justice Owen. The petty sessions for Condover district are held at Dorrington. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £207 with residence. The church, which is partly Norman, and was restored in 1878, contains monuments of the Owens, one of them by Roubilliac. Annscroft and Dorrington are separate ecclesiastical parishes.