BETTUS, a parish in the hundred of PURSLOW,
county of SALOP, 6 miles (N. W.) from Knighton,
containing 341 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of
Hereford, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and £200
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar
of Clun. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.