DUDLESTON, a chapelry in the parish of ELLESMERE,
hundred of PIMHILL county of SALOP, 4 miles
(N.W. by W.) from Ellesmere, with which the population
is returned. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield
and Coventry, endowed with £510 private benefaction,
and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage ,of the
Yicaf of Ellesmere. The chapel, dedicated to St, Mary,
has lately received an addition of one .hundred and
eighty free sittings, the Incorporated Society for the
enlargement of churches and chapels having granted
£200 toward defraying the expense. There is a trifling
endowment for the education of children.