UPTON (MAGNA), a parish in the Wellington division of the hundred of BRADFORD (South), county of SALOP, 5 miles (E.) from Shrewsbury, containing, with the extra-parochial liberty of Haughmond Demesne, 667 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at & 12. The Rev. Corbet Browne was patron, in 1808. The church is dedicated to St. Lucia. The Shrewsbury canal passes through the parish.