DIREGrORY.] SHROPSHIRE. HOPTON WAFRE. 103 COMMERCIAL. Lester William, Sunnybank WaldTon J ames, plumber & glazier & Bason Chas. farmer, Lower Carwood Morris John tax collector & clerk to parish cncl Bason William, farmer, Carwood Simcox John, 'l'he Cottage Beddell John, farmer COMMERCIAL. BROOME. Coghill James Davidson Ma.ckay M.D. Bevan Elizabeth (Mrs.),miller (water), Bluck Edmund, farmer physician & surgeon, Fir lodge Aston mill Bowen Benj. coal mer. Railway statn [)eane William, shopkeeper Davies William, tailor Bright Edward, farmer & landowner Edwards Oharles, blacksmith, Basd"ord Davies William, working bailiff to Mr. Field',s ,Mercantile Co. Limited, coal George Samuel, farmer John Owen, Crowsmoor merchants, Rail!way station Gerard & Smith, farmers Deakin Thos. wheelwright & carpntr J ones Richard, farmer Jukes William, bricklayer Evans Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer Lawley Joseph, blacksmith Morris Thomas, farmer, Barlow farm Jones Catherine (Mrs.), farmer Radnor Coal, Lime & General Supply Owen oGeorge, farmer, Basford J ones William, blacksmith Co. Limited, Railway station Smith Dudley, farmer, see Gerard & Jones William, carpenter & shopkpr Thomas Richard, beer retailer Smith Mason John, wheelw:right Webb George, boot & shoe maker Smith 'George, farmer, The Fish Morgan William, ,sawyer Penny Richard, Kangaroo P.H LIT'illJE BR.A!MPTON. ASTON-ON-OLUN. PooIe Thomas, frurmer Hamar Richard, farmer Beddoes ;Mrs. He.sterworth Thomas Samuel, shoe maker Pheasant Frank, wheelwright HOPTON CANGEFORD, or Hopton-in-the-Hole, held since 1886 by the Rev. Joseph Downs Scott L.Th. of is a parish including the townships of Great and Little University College, Durham, who is also rector of Cold Pas,ton, consisting of a few \Small farmhouses, 4~ miles Weston. flar C. H. Rouse~Boughton bart. D.L., J.P. is north-east from Ludlow station on the Shrewsbury and lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is Hereford line of the London and North Western and Great clayey; the subsoil is freestone. The chief crops are Western joint railway, in the Southern division of the wheat, barley, oats and beans. The area is 1,279 acres; county, lower division of Munslow hundred, Ludlow rateable value, £857; the population in 1891 was 73. union, petty sessional division and county court d1istrict, Great and Little Poston are townships taken from rural deanery and archdeaoonry of Ludlow and diocese the parish of Diddlebury in 1884 andl added to this parish of Hereford. By a Local Government Board Order, dated for civil purposes only. Sir C. H. Rouse-Boughton bart. March, 1884, part of Great Poston from Diddle,bury and D.L., J.P. and Richard Mason esq. a.re the principall~nd­ Little Poston and part of Great Poston from 1Iunslow owners. parishes were added to Hopton Cangeford. The church Parish Clerk, William Sanders. (~a~e unknown) is a building principally of brick,.C?n- Letters are received 'by foot post through Ludlow, arrive sIstmg of chancel, ~.a~e and a western tower con~aI~n.g at 8.50 a.m.; dispatched at 4.30 p.m. Ludlow is the 3 bells; there are sIttmgs for ID? pers.ons. .The regI~ter nearest money order & telegroph office dates from the year 1813. The livmg IS a VICarage, tIthe . .. i1'ent-cha.rge £6, grQss yearly value £45, including 22 The .chIldren of thIS parIsh attend the school at Stoke St. acres of gle'be, with residence, in the gift of Sir Charles H. MIlborough Rouse-Boughton 'hart. D.L., J.P. of Downton Hall, and Carrier.-Massey (passes through), to Ludlow on mon (Marked thus * receive their lettel's Bytheway William, cowkeeper I *Lewis Edwd. farmer, Lower Poston through Craven Arms R.S.O.) *Edwards Wm. farmer Great Posion l *:Madeley John, farmer, Poston Scott Rev.Jsph.Downs L.Th.Vicarage Hnghes' William, cowkeeper *Sankey Charles, farmer Bird Lowe, farmer, Upper wood J ames William, farmer, Lower wood Smith Thos. farmer, Littlewood farm HOPTON CASTLE is a village and parish, between bridge. Hopton Castle, of which there are now but Leintwardine and Clun, I mile west from Hopton Heath slight remains, is a. structure of great historical interest station on the Craven Arms and Swanse.a section of the. and was given by Henry n. to WaIter de Clifford, of LOl1don and North Western railway and 9 south-south- Clifford Gastle, Herefordshire,and in the year 1286 it came east from Bishop's Castle, in the Southern division of the intQ the possession of Roger Lord Mortimer, of Chlrke; county, Stow division of Purslow hundred, Clun union, during the Civil war it was held by the Royalists for some Clun and Purslow petty sessional division, Bishop·s Castle time against the repeated attacks of the Roundhead county court district, rural deanery of Clun, arch- troops, but they were eventually compelled to surrender; deaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. By Local most of the garrison were put to the swor'd, and the Government Boa.rd Order, dated March, 1884, a detached governor, Samuel Moor esq. taken prisoner and confined part of the parish was transferred to Clungunford. The in Ludlo'W Castle. Sir Edward Ripley bart. of Bedstone church of St. Mary is an edifice of stone, in the Gothic Court, is lord of the manor and owner of the entire style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, vestry and parish, with the exception of Great Hagley, of which a western turret containing 2 bells; the sta.ined east Robert Broome esq. of Rainhill, Lancs. is the owner. window is a memorial to. Lieut.-Col. Yelverton Beale, d. The soil ~s very various; the subsoil is chiefly stone. 1869; and there are three other stained windows in the The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is chancel, erected' by his eldest son in 1871, in memory of 2,550 acres; rateable value, £2,260; the population in the Rev. George Dansey Pardoe, 45 years rector of this 1891 was II5· parish, d. 1856; the church was entirely rebuilt in 1870 Parish Clerk, Herbert Jukes. at a cost of about £1,000 and affords 100 sittings. The Wall Letter Box cleared. 6t 4.30 p.m.; sundays at 1.20 register dates from the year 1538. The living is a rectory p.m. Letters are received from Aston-on-Clun (Rail- average tithe rent-charge £238, gross yearly value £350, way Sub-Office), delivered at 9 a.m. The nearest money including 66 acres of glebe, with residence, in the g;ft order & telegraph office is at Aston-on...lClun of S~r Edward Ripley 'hart. and held since 1888 by the National School (mixed), for 40 children; average attend- Rev. Edward Daiulbeney Elton B.A. of Trinity Hall, Cam- ance, 22; Miss Sarah Wellings, mistress Elton Rev.Edwd.Daubeny B.A.Rectory Davies John, farmer, Mere Oak ~Iakelin, I. & Son, farmers COMMERCIAL. Howellg. Wm. lbchd.frmr.Little heath Richards Thomas, farm bailiff to C. Davies Edward, farmer, The Lye Jones James, farmer, Great Hagley J. Clerke esq Davies Jame.s, farmer, Little Hagley Lewis John, farmer &; carpenter Watkins Geol'ge, farmer, New house HOPTON WAFRE, or Hopton Wafers, is a parish' many valuable gifts. The register dates from the year and village, pleasantly seated in a valley at the bast of 1729. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £250, the Clee hill, on the road frQm Ludlow to Cleobury Morti- including 83 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift mer, about 5 miles west from Cleobury Mortimer station of Rear-Admirel Robert Woodward C.B. and held since on the Tenbury and Bewdley branch of the Great Western 1890 by the Rev. Jillmes Payt<Jn B.A. of St. John's College, railway, 9 east from Ludlow and 2 west from Cl€obury Cambridge. There is a Primitive Methodist, chapel, Mortimer, in the Southern diVoision of the county, Cleo- erected in 1880. A granite chip path was laid down in bury division of StottesdQn hundred, Cleobury Mortimer 1894 to open up the unused portion of the churchyard, petty sessional divisiQn, union and county court district, tbrongh the exertions of Mr. Edwin Caldwell of this rural deanery of Burford (west division), archdeaconry place. Mrs. Lucy Botfield, by will, dated 5th ~Iay, 1852, of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. By Local Govern- left £300 in trust, the income to be paid to the wife of ment Board Order, dated October, 1877, a small detaehed the. Rector of Hopton Wafre, to be distributed by her at part of the parish was transferred to Cleobury Mortimer. her sole discretion amQngst the poor of Hopton Wafre. The church of St. Michael, rebuilt ill~I827, on the site of This charity now realises £7 I6s. Sd. per annum. Here the old church, is an edifice of freestone, consisting of are 0001 mines. Hopton Court, the seat of Rear-Admiral nave and a tower with pinnillcles, containing a dock and 3 Robert Woodward C.B. who is lord of the manor and bells; the east window is stained; the church was 1'e- principal ilandowner, is a handsome stone building, stored in 1892 at a cost of about £900, exclusive of erected in 1770, on the site of the old manor house. which.