Wrockwardine, Shropshire

Description
Wrockwardine, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands half a mile SSW of Admaston station on the G.W.R. and L. & N.W.R., and 2 miles W by N of Wellington, and has a post office under Wellington; money order and telegraph office, Wellington. The parish includes Admaston, Allscot, Bratton, Bnrcott, Clottley, Leaton, Charlton, Long Lane, and Walcot townships, and comprises 4583 acres; population of the civil parish, 1203; of the ecclesiastical, 1173. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. Overley and Orleton are chief residences. A mineral spring is in Admaston. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £240 with residence. The church is Early English, with traces of Norman work.