ALBERBURY, or ABBERBURY, a parish comprising
the townships of Cruggion, Middleton, and Uppington,
in the hundred of CAWRSE, and the township
of Bauseley in the hundred of DEYTHUR, county of
MONTGOMERY (Wales), and the chapelry of Wollaston,
and the townships of Alherbury, Benthal with Shrawardine,
Eyton, and Rowton with Amaston, in the hundred
of FORD, county of SALOP, and containing 1946 inhabitants,
of which number, 332 are in the township of
Alberbury, 8$ miles (W.) from Shrewsbury. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop,
and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at
£5. 10., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Warden
and Fellows of All Souls' College, Oxford. The church
is dedicated to St. Michael. The Roman Watling-street
passes through the parish, which is partially bounded
by the river Severn. There are some remains of a
castle, built in the reign of Henry II., by Fulk Fitz-
Warine, who founded an abbey for Black monks of the
order of Grandmont, vestiges of which may still be
traced about a mile from the castle: on the suppression
of Alien priories, Henry VI. gave the site to the college
of All Souls', Oxford, to which it still belongs.