MONTFORD, a parish in the hundred of PIMHILL,
county of SALOP, 5 miles (W.N.W.) from Shrewsbury,
containing 517 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of
Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at
£4. 18. 6., and in the patronage of the Earl of Powis,
The church is dedicated to St. Chad. The parish.is
bounded on the south by the river Severn, across which
there is a bridge.