Onibury, Shropshire

Description
Onibury, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands on the river Onny, 1 1/2 mile N of the boundary with Herefordshire, and 5 miles NW of Ludlow. It has a station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint (L. & N.W. and G.W.) railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Craven Arms (R.S.O.) The parish contains also the townships of Walton and Wootton. Acreage, 2532; population of the civil parish, 499: of The ecclesiastical, 418. Stokesay Court, the seat of the lord of the manor, is a handsome stone mansion erected in 1889. Building stone is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £357 with residence. The church is ancient, with a tower, and was restored in 1837 and re-roofed in 1840.