MORETON-CORBET, a parish in the Whitchurch
division of the hundred of BRADFORD (North), county
of SALOP, 5 miles (S. E.) from Wem, containing, with
the township of Preston-Brockhurst, 235 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated
in the Icing's books at £5. 3. 6., and in the patronage
of Sir A. Corbett, Bart. The church, dedicated to St.
Bartholomew, is a neat structure, containing some fine
ancient monuments of the Corbet family, whose magnificent
mansion, built in the time of Elizabeth, was
burned in the civil war, by a detachment from Cromwell's
army, which was stationed at Wem; the remains
have been converted into workshops, &c.