CLUNBURY, a parish in the hundred of PURSLOW,
county of SALOP, comprising the townships of Clunbury
with Obley, and Clunton with Rempton, and containing
800 inhabitants, of which number, 359 are in the township
of Clunbury with Obley, 6 miles (S. S. E.) from
Bishop's Castle. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford,
endowed with £800 private benefaction, and £1800
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Earl
of Powis. The church is dedicated to St. Swithin. Here
is a small endowed school.