RYTON, a parish in the Shiffnall division of the
hundred of BRIMSTREE, county of SALOP, 4 miles (S.
by E.) from Shiffnall, containing 131 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and
diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king’s
books at &5. 12. l., and in the patronage of G. Molineux,
Esq. This place had anciently a weekly market,
and an annual fair for four days, both which have been
long disused. Ryton gave the title of baron to John,
second son of Sir William Craven, Knt., and brother
to William, Earl of Craven, but it is now extinct.