Description
Worfield, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands on the river Worfe, 3 1/4 miles NE of Bridgnorth, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bridgnorth. The parish contains about thirty townships, the chief of which are Ackleton, Hilton, and Roughton. Acreage, 10,370; population, 1613. There is a parish council consisting of thirteen members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £270. The church, built of red sandstone, is Decorated, and was restored in 1862. It has three fine screens, a side chapel, two fine reredoses in alabaster, a lofty tower and spire, and contains two fine monuments.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
