EYTON-upon-the-WILD-MOORS, a parish in the Wellington division of the hundred of BRADFORD (South), county of SALOP, 2 miles (N.) from Wellington, containing 390 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Wellington, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £2. 14. 9., and in the patronage of T. Eyton, Esq. The church is dedicated to All Saints: there is no burial-ground at thisplace. Edward, the celebrated Lord Herbert of Chirbury, was born here in 1581: in 1625 he was created a baron of the kingdom of Ireland, and in 1631 was elevated to the English peerage: his lordship died in 1648.