STOCKTON, a parish in the Shifnall division of
the hundred of BRIMSTREE, county of SALOP, 4 miles
(N. by E.) from Bridgenorth, containing 500 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, with the perpetual curacy ot
Boningale, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese ot
Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at
£13.11.3. T. Whitmore, Esq. was patron in 1811. The
church is dedicated to St. Chad.