Alveley is a village in the Severn Valley in southeast Shropshire, England, about 11 miles south-southeast of Bridgnorth. It is in the civil parish of Alveley and Romsley. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 2,098.The Black Death is said to have killed 60% of the village population in 1349. A stone cross, the Buttercross, 2 miles outside the village dates from the time of the Black Death when it was a place for food to be left for the village when it was quarantined.
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