CHETWYND, a parish in Newport district, Salop; on the verge of the county and on the river Mees, adjacent to the Newport canal, and near the Stafford and Shrewsbury railway, 1½ mile N by W of Newport. It includes the townships of Howle and Sambrook, and part of Pickstock; and its Post town is Newport, Salop. Acres, 3, 803. Real property, £3, 729. Pop., 719. Houses, 147. The property is subdivided. Chetwynd Park is the seat of J.B. Borough, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £705.* Patron, J.B. Borough, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1867, and is in the second pointed style. There are an Independent chapel, and charities £46.

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