Maesbury

is a pleasant village, in a bold undulating country, three miles S.E. from Oswestry, having in 1841, 107 houses and 414 inhabitants. This township and that of Sweeney contain together 3,164a. 3r. 35p. of land, chiefly a productive soil. The meadow lands on the banks of the Morda Dyke are occasionally flooded by those waters overflowing their banks. The principal landowners are Mrs. Lloyd, Mrs. Parker, George W. Edwards, Esq., John Pickstock, Esq., Mr. John Davies, Mr. John Furmston, Mr. Thomas Jones, Mr. Edward Peat, J. F. M. Doveston, Esq., Mrs. Wildblood, Mrs. Hughes, Mr. John Frances, Mrs. Edwards, and the executors of Thomas Basnitt, Esq. The township is intersected by the Oswestry and Llanymyneck turnpike road and the Shropshire Union Canal. The latter has a wharf at Maesbury Marsh, which affords every facility for forwarding merchandise to the inland counties. The tithes of the above land are commuted for the sum of £674, of which £80. 3s. are apportioned to the vicar, £30 to J. A. Lloyd, Esq., £11 to L. J. Venables, Esq., £3. 15s. to Rowland Hunt, Esq., £520 to T. N. Barker, Esq., £16 to Mr. J. Davies, and £13 to L. Bentley, Esq.

Davies John, farmer, The Fields

Duncon John, farmer

Edwards Mrs., farmer

Evans Edward, farmer

Evans Mrs., jun., farmer

Fardoe William, shoemaker

Frances John, maltster and farmer

Frank Edward, farmer, The Dairy

Hughes John, farmer, Pentrecoed

Humphreys Joseph, farmer

Jones Thomas, corn miller

Lea John, miller & corn factor

Leeke Catherine, beerhouse keeper

Minett William, farmer

Peat Edward, miller and corn factor

Pickstock John, Esq.

Price Morris, victualler, Navigation Inn

Wildblood Mrs.

Williams John, beerhouse keeper