PREEN (CHURCH), a parish in the hundred of
CONDOVER, county of SALOP, 6 miles (W, by S.) from
Much Wenlock, containing 73 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, with that of Longnor, in the archdeaconry
of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, endowed
with £800 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of W. Webster, Esq. The church
is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Here was a small
Cluniac priory, a cell to that of Wenlock.