WORFIELD, a parish in the Hales-Owen division of
the hundred of BRIMSTREE, county of SALOP, 3 miles
(N. B. by B.) from Bridgenorth, containing 1582 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, rated in the king's books at £16. 15., en-
dowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of W. Y. Davenport, Esq.
The church is dedicated to St. Peter. William Lloyd
and Thomas Parker, in 1613, conveyed certain estates,
now producing an annual income of about £46, in trust
for the maintenance of a school, in which thirteen children
are educated.