HAMPTON (WELCH), a parish in the hundred of
PIMHILL, county of SALOP, 2 miles (E. by N.) from
Ellesmere, containing 478 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, endowed with £400 private benefaction,
and £400.royal bounty, and in the peculiar jurisdiction
and patronage of the Lord of the Manor, the
Rev,- Sir Edward Kynaston, Bart. The church is dedicated
to St. Michael.