WISTANSTOW, a parish partly in the hundred of
PURSLOW, but chiefly in that of MUNSLOW, county of
SALOP, 9 miles (N. W, by N.) from Ludlow, containing
883 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in
the king's books at £18, and in the patronage of the
Earl of Craven. The church is dedicated to the Holy
Trinity.