FORD, a parish, a division, and a hundred in Salop. The parish is in Atcham district; lies on the river Severn, near Watling-street, 3½ miles S of Baschurch r. station, and 5½ W by N of Shrewsbury; and has a post office under Shrewsbury. Acres, 1, 773. Real property, £4, 385. Pop., 351. Houses, 81. The property is much sub-divided. Ford House is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £91. Patron, J. Naylor, Esq. The church is ancient; contains a carved screen and an old font; and was recently in bad condition.-The division is part of the hundred, and contains four parishes and parts of four others. Acres, 22, 508. Pop. in 1851, 4, 405. Houses, 885. -The hundred contains also Pontesbury division. Acres, 33, 970. Pop. in 1861, 7, 767. Houses, 1, 531.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))