BASCHURCH, a parish in the hundred of PIMHILL,
county of SALOP, 8 miles (N.W. by N.) from
Shrewsbury, containing 1277 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop,
and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the
king's books at £10. 16., and in the patronage of the
Crown. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The
Ellesmere canal passes through the parish. Here is a
school for teaching and clothing poor children, endowed
with upwards of £ 140 per annum, arising from land
bequeathed by Eleanor Harries, in 1716: there is also
another small charity school. Vestiges of a Roman
camp may be traced in the neighbourhood.