CLUNGUNFORD, a parish in the hundred of PURSLOW,
county of SALOP, 9 miles (S. E. by S.) from
Bishop's Castle, containing, with the extra-parochial
liberty of Dinmore, 486 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of
Hereford, rated in the king's books at £16, and in the
patronage of John Rocke, Esq. The church is dedicated
to St. Cuthbert. The trustees of Francis Walker,
in 1682, founded and endowed a charity school, the income
of which, increased by sundry other bequests in
1725 and 1776, amounts to £46 per annum, for teaching
the children of Clungunford, and the adjoining township
of Broome, in the parish of Hopesay;. about
eighty are educated upon this foundation. The river
Clun and the Roman Watling-street intersect this parish
from north to south. In the neighbourhood are two
tumuli, and limestone in abundance.