DITTON (PRIORS), a parish partly in the hundred
of MUNSLOW, but chiefly within the liberty of WENLOCK,
county of SALOP, 7 miles (W.S.W.) from
Bridgenorth, containing, with the township of Ruthale
with Ashfield, which is in Munslow hundred, 685 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in
the king's books at £5. 15. 8. John Baxter, Esq. was
patron in 1791. The church is dedicated to St. John
the Baptist.