HAGHMON-ABBEY, or HAUGHMOND-ABBEY, a liberty (extraparochial),
in the Wellington division of the hundred
of BRADFORD (South), county of SALOP, 4 miles
(N.E.) from Shrewsbury. In 1110, William Fitz-Alan,
of Clun, founded an abbey here for canons regular of
the order of St. Augustine, and dedicated it to St. John
the Apostle and Evangelist, the revenue of which, at
the dissolution, amounted to £294. 12. 9. It forms
part of the demesne of Sundorn: the remains consist
of the chapter-house, which is entire, the south doorway
of the nave of the church, and a range of building
supposed to have been the abbot's lodging and hall,
partly in the Norman, but chiefly in the early, style of
English architecture. The Rev. William Clarke, Chancellor
in the Cathedral Church of Chichester, and an antiquary
of no mean repute, was born at this place in 1696.