Description
Moreton Say, a township and a parish in Salop. The township lies ou a small affluent of the river Tern, 2 miles SSW of the boundary with Cheshire, 2 1/4 WNW of the boundary with Staffordshire, and 3 W of Market Drayton. The parish contains also the townships of Bletchley, Longford, and Styche, and its post town is Market Drayton. Acreage, 5999; population of the civil parish, 777; of the ecclesiastical, 670. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £515 with residence. The church is of the 14th century, was cased with brick in 1788, has a tower, and contains memorials of the distinguished Lord Clive, who was interred here, and monuments to the Clive family and to the Vernons. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
