RONTON-ABBEY, a liberty (extra-parochial), in
the southern division of the hundred of PIREHILL,,
county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (S. by E.) from Eccleshall,
containing 11 inhabitants. A priory of Black
canons, subordinate to the abbey of Haughmond in
Shropshire, was founded, in the reign of Henry II., by
Robert Noel, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and
at the dissolution was valued at £ 102.11.1. per annum;
the tower and a small portion of the cloisters still remain,
with the moat that enclosed the grounds, comprising
thirty acres.