ASTON-BOTTERELL, a parish in the hundred of
STOTTESDEN, county of SALOP, 7 miles (N. W. by W.)
from Cleobury-Mortimer, containing 230 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop,
and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at
£7. 1. 0., and in the patronage of the Marquis of
Cleveland. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.
This place formerly had a market on Tuesday, and a
fair at Michaelmas, by grant from Henry III. It was
then held under the Earls of Arundel by the family of
Botterel, from whom it derived the adjunct to its name.
The Llanymynech canal passes along the western and
southern parts of the parish.