Shavington, or the Morrey,

is a township four miles N.W. from Market Drayton, partly in this county and partly in that of Cheshire, situated on the northern verge of Shropshire. In 1841 there were three houses and 25 inhabitants returned as within the bounds of this county, and in the parish of Adderley. Rateable value £1,541. 9s.; the acres are given with the parish. The Earl of Kilmorey is owner of the land, and lord of the manor, and occasionally resides at Shavington Hall—a spacious and elegant mansion of brick, surrounded with a park richly wooded, and beautifully adorned with sylvan beauty, comprising upwards of fifteen hundred acres. The noble owner enlarged the park, and began to enclose the whole with a brick wall several years ago—upwards of five miles of the wall has already been built; the park is about seven miles in circumference.

Directory.—The Earl of Kilmorey, Shavington Hall; John Gregory, Esq., steward, Shavington Hall; James Lunt, farmer, The Morrey; and Richard Vernon, farmer, The Morrey.