Moreton Corbet, Shropshire

Description
Moreton Corbet, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands on the river Eoden, 4 miles E of Yorton station on the L. & N.W.R., and 5 SE of Wem. The parish contains also part of the township of Preston Brockhurst, which has a post office under Shrewsbury; money order office, Shrewsbury; telegraph office, Hadnall. Acreage, 2243; population of the civil parish, 258; of the ecclesiastical, 1/246. The manor belongs to the Corbet family. A fine Elizabetlian addition was made to Moreton Corbet Castle in the 16th century. The whole was burnt in the Civil War of Charles I., and is now a picturesque ruin. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £267 with residence. The church is ancient, was restored in 1883, and consists of chancel, nave, south aisle or Corbet chapel, and a tower which was restored in 1779. It contains monuments to the Corbet family, a hagioscope, aumbry, and piscina.