BURTON, a chapelry in the parish and liberties of MUCH-WENLOCK, county of SALOP, 3 miles (S. W. by S.) from Much Wenlock, with which the population is returned. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Much Wenlock, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, endowed with £400 private benefaction, arid £600 royal bounty.