In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hopton Wafers like this:
HOPTON (WAFERS), a village and a parish in Cleobury-Mortimer district, Salop. The village stands under the Clee hills, 2½ miles NW by W of Cleobury-Mortimer r. station. The parish has sometimes been regarded as including the extra-parochial tract of Woodhouse. Posttown, Cleobury-Mortimer, under Bewdley. ...
Acres, 1, 610. Real property, £8, 459; of which £5, 377 are in mines. Pop., exc. of Woodhouse, 440. Houses, 95. The manor, with Hopton Court, and the greater part of the land, belongs to T. Woodward, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £248.* Patron, T. Woodward, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1827, and has a pinnacled tower. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and a free school.
Hopton Wafers through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hopton Wafers in South Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10386
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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