ERCALL (CHILDS), a parish in the Drayton
division of the hundred of BRADFORD (North), county
of SALOP, 7 miles (N.W.) from Newport, containing
389 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and
£800 royal bounty. Sir Andrew Corbett, Bart, was patron
in 1801. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.