STOTTESDEN, a parish partly in the hundred of
WOLPHY, county of HEREFORD, but chiefly in the hundred
of STOTTESDEN, county of SALOP,. 5 miles (N.)
from Cleobury-Mortimer, containing, with the chapelry
of Farlow, 1608 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford,
rated in the king's books at £15. 10. 10. Sir W. Pulteney,
Bart, was patron in 1822. The church, dedicated
to St. Mary, was built by Robert de Belesme, Earl of
Shrewsbury, who gave it to the abbey of that place.