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Bauseley, a township, in that part of the parish of Alberbury which is in the lower division of the hundred of Deythur, county of Montgomery, North Wales, 8 miles (N.E. by E.) from Welshpool; containing 371 inhabitants. This township, situated on the border of Shropshire, separately maintains its own poor; the rateable annual value is returned at £1390. The impropriate tithes, belonging to All Souls’ College, Oxford, have been commuted for a rent-charge of £126. Two benefactions of £10 each, by William Barrett and John Asterley, were left to the poor, the interest of which sums is still distributed among them.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis Third Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.