PETTON, a parish in the hundred of PIMHILL, county of SALOP, 6 miles (S. S. E.) from Ellesmere, containing 48 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 £3. 4. 2., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown.