BOBBINGTON, a parish partly in the hundred of
BRIAISTREE, county of SALOP, but chiefly in the southern
division of the hundred of SEISDON, county of
STAFFORD, 9 miles (S. W.) from Wolverhampton, containing
393 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, within the jurisdiction of the court of the royal
peculiar of Bridgenorth, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of T. Whitmore, Esq. The church, dedicated to
St. Mary, has recently been enlarged by the addition
of ninety-three free sittings, towards defraying the expense
of which, the Incorporated Society for enlarging
churches and chapels granted £ 50. A free school was
built in 1792, by Hannah Cobbett, who endowed it with
£1400 three per cents., for the instruction of twenty
boys and twelve girls.