LAYSTERS, a parish in the hundred of WOLPHY,
county of HEREFORD, 4 miles (S. S.W.) from Tenbury,
containing 227 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of
Hereford, endowed with £500 private benefaction, and
£400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev.
Thomas Elton Miller. The church is dedicated to St.
Andrew. An ancient ecclesiastical establishment here
was connected with the priory of Shene in Surrey: there
are still some vestiges of the buildings on a farm called
the Cinders, being partially surrounded by a moat.