CLAVERLEY, a township and a parish in Bridgnorth district, Salop. The township lies near the boundary with Stafford, 5¼ miles E of Bridgnorth town and r. station; and has a post office‡ under Bridgnorth. The parish contains also the townships of Aston, Beobridge, Broughton, Dallicott, Farmcott, Gatacre, Heathton, Hopstone, Ludstone, Shipley, Sutton, and Woundale. Acres, 8, 143. Real property, £16, 278. Pop., 1, 667. Houses, 368. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £305.* Patron, John Beedham, Esq. The church is good; and there are charities £90.

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