Melverley, Shropshire

Description
Melverley, a village and a parish in Salop, on the river Vyrnwy, at its influx to the Severn at the boundary with Montgomeryshire, 3 miles S of Kinnerley station on the Shropshire railway, 10 S by E of Oswestry, and 12 W by N of Shrewsbury. Post town, Llanymynech, under Oswestry. Acreage of parish, 1444; population, 181. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Asaph; net value, £85 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of St Asaph. The church is an ancient structure of wood and plaster, with bell-turret. It was rebuilt in 1718, when Edward Garland, Thomas Williams, and Edward Owen were churchwardens. It was restored in 1878 at a cost of £800. The date on the bell is 1670. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.