LEE-BOTWOOD, a parish in the hundred of CONDOVER,
county of SALOP, 4 miles (N. N. E.) from
Church-Stretton, containing 204  inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, united to that of Longnor,
in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield
and Coventry, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Archdeacon
Corbett. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, once
belonged to the abbey of Haughmond. Coal and limestone
are obtained in the parish, through which runs a
small brook called the Rae.