MORVILL, a parish in the hundred of STOTTESDEN,
county of SALOP, 3 miles (W.byN.) from Bridgenorth,
containing, with the chapelry of Aston-Eyre,
430 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200
royal bounty. -Weaver, Esq. was patron in -1797.
The church is dedicated to St. George in it was originally
a society of Secular canons, and subsequently one
of Benedictine monks, a cell to the abbey of Shrewsbury;
it was founded by Earl Roger, and at the dissolution
had a revenue of £15.