KINNERSLEY, a parish in the Newport division of
the hundred of BRADFORD (South), county of SALOP,
4 miles (N. N. E.) from Wellington, containing 253 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated
in the king's books at £6.1. 8. Earl Gower was patron
in 1816. The church is dedicated to St. Chad.