WITHINGTON, a parish in the Wellington division of the hundred of BRADFORD (South), county of SALOP, 6 miles (E.) from Shrewsbury, containing 179 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, and in the patronage of the Rector of Upton Magna. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The Shrewsbury canal passes through the parish.