Hopton Cangeford, also referred to as Hopton-in-the-Hole, is a small village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England.
| Hopton Cangeford | |
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 The eighteenth-century former church, designed by T. F. Pritchard[1] | |
  Hopton Cangeford Location within Shropshire | |
| OS grid reference | SO546803 |
| Civil parish |
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| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LUDLOW |
| Postcode district | SY8 |
| Dialling code | 01584 |
| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Shropshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
The small parish includes Lesser Poston and Greater Poston; both were manors recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 (Hopton Cangeford was not). They formed part of the Saxon hundred of Culvestan.[2][3] They are situated to the north of Hopton Cangeford village.
Hopton Cangeford was historically an outlying part of Stanton Lacy parish. It belonged to (after the dissolution of Culvestan c. 1100) the hundred of Munslow.
The father of painter Charles Wellington Furse was the perpetual curate of the parish.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Pevsner, N. and Newman, J. The buildings of England: Shropshire, p.57
- ^ Open Domesday Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine Greater Poston
- ^ Open Domesday Archived 2014-06-06 at archive.today Lesser Poston
External links
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Media related to Hopton Cangeford at Wikimedia Commons