BURRINGTON is a parish situated near the river Teme, and on a by-road leading from Ludlow, via Aston, to Leintwardine. It is distant 5 miles S.W. of Ludlow, 13 N.W. of Leominster, and 26 N.N.W. of Hereford, in Wigmore hundred, petty sessional division, and polling district, Ludlow union and county court district. The population in 1861 was 231; in 1871, 200; inhabited houses, 39; families or separate occupiers, 42; area of parish, 2,580 acres; annual rateable value, £1,642. Andrew Johnes Rouse Boughton Knight, Esq., of Downton castle, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The parish is well wooded; soil, heavy loam; subsoil, partly rock; produce, wheat, barley, fruit, &c. Burrington is in the diocese of Hereford and archdeaconry and rural deanery of Ludlow; living, a vicarage; value, £240, with residence; patron, the Lord Chancellor; vicar, Rev. George James Corser, M.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1866. The church, dedicated to St. George, is a handsome stone edifice. It was entirely rebuilt in 1864; the nave by A.J.R. Boughton Knight, Esq., and the chancel by subscription; total cost, £800. It contains several monuments to the Knight family, a fine old font, register (earliest date 1640), and chest. There is a good school for boys and girls, chiefly supported by subscription.