MORETON, a chapelry in the parish of LLANYBLODWELL, hundred of OSWESTRY, county of SALOP, 3 miles (S.) from Oswestry. The population is returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of St. Asaph, endowed with £ 32 per annum private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. The chapel is dedicated to St. Michael. Here is a mineral spring.