Norbury (All Saints)

NORBURY (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Clun, hundred of Purslow, S. division of Salop, 4 miles (N. E.) from Bishop's-Castle, on the road to Shrewsbury; containing 420 inhabitants. The surface is generally hilly, and the soil light and poor, and in some parts marshy; the lands are watered by numerous small brooks. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Lydbury North. The church is a small ancient structure, with a tower. There is a chapel of ease about five miles from the church, on the road to Bishop's-Castle; and the Primitive Methodists have a place of worship at Asterton.