Chirbury is a village in Shropshire

Shropshire

Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, situated close to the Wales-England border. It is about 3 miles east of Montgomery

Montgomery, Powys

The historic county town of Montgomery in Powys, Wales lies just three miles from the English border in the Welsh Marches. It is best known for its castle, Montgomery Castle, begun in 1223, and its parish church, begun in 1227. However its origins go back much further, as seen by the Celtic Iron...

 and 7 miles south of Welshpool

Welshpool

Welshpool is a town in Powys, Wales, or ancient county Montgomeryshire, from the Wales-England border. The town is low-lying on the River Severn; the Welsh language name Y Trallwng literally meaning 'the marshy or sinking land'...

, at the junction of the A490

A490 road

The A490 is a road in the United Kingdom running from Churchstoke, Powys to Llanfyllin, also in Powys. The road runs for a short distance through Shropshire in England.- The route :...

 and B4386 roads. Nearby is the River Camlad.

It forms, with the village of Brompton

Brompton, Shropshire

Brompton is a small hamlet in Shropshire, England. It lies on the A489 between Church Stoke, Powys and Newtown, Powys, at its junction with the B4385. The village is notable for the fact that it is impossible to reach any other settlement in England by road without first passing through Wales...

 and a number of smaller settlements such as Priestweston

Priestweston

Priestweston is a small village in the civil parish of Chirbury with Brompton, Shropshire, England, lying in the Welsh Marches. Its name is based on the Old English for "western settlement ", with the affix priest in reference to the estate of the Prior of Chirbury at Weston Parva...

 and Wotherton

Wotherton

Wotherton is a hamlet in west Shropshire, close to the Welsh border. It is in the civil parish of Chirbury. Its name, mentioned as a manor in Domesday means, roughly, "settlement at a woodland ford"; the road through the village crosses a small stream....

, the Chirbury with Brompton civil parish, which according to the 2001 census

United Kingdom Census 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194....

 had a population of 914.

The placename was recorded in 915 as Cyricbyrig in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the Chronicle was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great...

, and means "the fort with a church".

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