ERCALL (MAGNA), a parish in the Wellington
division of the hundred of BRADFORD (South), county of
SALOP, 6 miles (N.W.) from Wellington, containing 1952
inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in
the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield
and Coventry, rated, in the king's .books at £17. 6. 8.
H. Pulteney, Esq. was patron in 1795. The church is dedicated
to St. Michael. In this parish is a free school
for the education of poor boys, and an hospital for the
maintenance of eight decayed householders.