SHOPLAND, a parish in the hundred of ROCHFORD,
county of ESSEX, 2 miles (N.E. by E.) from Prittlewell,
containing 34 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and
diocese of London, rated in the king's' books at £ 9,
and endowed with £200 royal bounty. Thomas Mutlow,
Esq. was patron in 1803. The church is dedicated to
St. Mary Magdalene.