ASTLEY (ABBOT'S), a parish in the hundred of
STOTTESDEN, county of SALOP, 2 miles (N.) from
Bridgenorth, containing 664 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage
of T. Whitmore, Esq. The river Severn passes
through the parish. Here is a school with a small
endowment for poor children.