BROMFIELD, a village, a township, and a parish in Ludlow district, Salop. The village stands near the confluence of the Onny and the Teme, adjacent to the Shrewsbury and Hereford railway, 2½ miles NW by N of Ludlow; and has a station on the railway, an inn, and a head post office, designated Bromfield, Shropshire. The township includes also the sub-townships of Lady-Halton and Priors Halton. Acres, 6,112. Pop., 621. Houses, 115. The parish contains likewise the chapelry of Halford. Acres, 7,174. Real property, £9,457. Pop., 762. Houses, 138. The property is divided among a few. Oakley Park, contiguous to the village, is a fine feature. A small college of secular canons was founded, in the time of Henry I., on the brink of the Teme, below the influx of the Onny; became, in 1159, a Benedictine priory, subject to St. Peter's Abbey at Gloucester; and was given, in the time of Mary, to Charles Fox. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £334.* Patron, R. G. W. Clive, Esq. The church adjoins some remains of the ancient priory; is an ancient structure of various dates, with a tower; and was repaired in 1850.

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