LILLESHALL, a parish in the Newport division of the hundred of BRADFORD (South), county of SALOP, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from Newport, containing 3143 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 £6. 17. 11., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Marquis of Stafford. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. About 1145, an abbey, for regular canons of the order of St. Augustine, was founded here; at the dissolution the revenue was valued at £327. 10. A branch of the Donnington Wood, or Marquis of Stafford's, canal terminates in the northern part of this parish.