EASTHOPE PARISH. 535

SUTTON GREAT, a township with a scattered population, in the parish of Diddlebury, six miles north-east from , contains 73± acres of land, principally the property of Herbert Cornewall, Esq.; the vicarial tithes are commuted for £26, and the rtctoral for £35. l4s. At the census of 1841 there were thirteen houses and a population of sixty· four souls. The chief residents in Suttou are Benjamin l'itt, farmer, and John Yates, farmer. WESTHOPE, a township in the parish of Diddlebury, nine miles north-west from Ludlow, has ll86 acres of land, tbe rateable value of which is £668. In 1841 there were 17 houses and 103 inhabitants. There is a Chapel of Ease here, a small nnpretending structure, the living of which is a curacy subordinate to the ,·icarage of Diddlebnry; the small tithes are commuted for £25, and the large tithes for £82. 4s. DIRECTORY.-John Banks, farmer, Westhope House; Thomas Banks, farmer, Lower Westhope; William Price, farmer, Chapel farm; Richard Smout, farmer; John Smout, farmer, The Hall Eud.

EASTHOPE is a parish and small rural village; situated in Hopedtlle, in the lower division of the Mnnslow hundred, five miles south-west from the ancient town of Much Wen lock, eight miles east from , and ten miles west from . The parish contains 815 acres of land, the rateable value of which is £803. At the census in 1801 there were 85 inhabitants; 1831, 103; and in 1841, 21 houses and a population of 103 souls. In lhe 34th Edward I. John de Easthope died siezed of the manor of Easthope, 18th of Edward II. a fine was levied between Th<>mas de Easthope and John de Hopton defendant, of the manor and of the advowson of the church, to the use of Thomas and Joanna his wife in fee tail. The 21st of Richard Jl. Richard Earl of Arundel was found to have a knight's fee in Easthope, holden th"n by Thomas de Hynkeley. In the 12th of Henry VII. a fine was levied between Henry Warley and Nicholas Warley complainants, John Haltman and his wife defendants, of both the manor and advowson of the church et de terris in Easthope, Presthope, Astwale, I.outhwyche, Willey, Bratton, Henley, and Bonld. Moses George Benson, Esq. is the principal landowner and lord of the manor; the soil is mostly upon the limestone, and there is a good deal of limestone rock in the parish and neighbourhood. The water is very good and some of the springs are accounted efficacious in scorbutic complaints, and are also of a petrifying quality. The scenery is beautifully diversified and romantic, and some of the high grounds command fine views of the cele­ brated Wrekin, the Clee hill, and Caradoc, so named after Caractacus, who had a camp on the summit. The Wen lock edge is a great feature in this part of the country; it is a steep wooded acclivity which runs nearly through the centre of the parish, and is of an interesting nature to the geologist. ToE CuuncH is a small structure unpretending in its architecture, and dedicated to St. Peter. It has a short tower, and there is a well-proportioned window in the east end in the early English style : the font is very ancient. On the north side of the church, between two \'enerable yews, are two tombs without date or inscription but simply a cross upon each. It is supposed that two monks are interred there, who might be connected with the Abbey of Wenlock. The stones have given rise to some curious legends among the people. The living is a rectory \•alued in the king's book at £3. 3s. )~d., now returned at £133, in the patronoge of M. G. Ben son, Esq.; incumbent, Rev. "Robert Armitage. The rectory is a neat structure in a sheltered situation, and there are thirty-six acres of glebe land. On some rising ground situated about a mile west of the turnpike road leading from Wen lock to Ludlow, and about half way between Larden Hall and Lutwyche Hall, is a cele­ brated British encampment. It encloses about eight acres, and the form is nearly a circle, surrounded by inner and outer fosses; the inner wall falls on the side due east lwelve feet, externally twenty-five feet, across the crest of the parapet, six feet. The relief of the second