PRESTON-GUBBALS, a parish in the liberties of
the town of SHREWSBURY, county of SALOP, 4 miles
(N.) from Shrewsbury, containing, with the township
of Merrington, 369 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, united to the vicarage of Prees,' in the
archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and
£600 royal bounty. The church is dedicated to St.
Martin.