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DIDDLEBURY: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

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"DIDDLEBURY, a parish in the hundred of MUNSLOW, county of SALOP, comprising the townships of Diddlebury, Middlehope, Peaton, and Sutton, and containing 987 inhabitants, of which number, 434 are in the township of Diddlebury, 8 miles (N.) from Ludlow. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £12. 1. 3., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Here was formerly an Alien priory, which, with the patronage of the church, belonged to the abbot and convent of Sagium, or Seez, in Normandy, and was afterwards appropriated to the abbey of Shrewsbury."

" CROFTON, a township in the parish of DIDDLEBURY, hundred of MUNSLOW, county of SALOP, 7 miles (N.by W.) from Ludlow. The population is returned with the parish."

" MIDDLEHOPE, a township in the parish of DIDDLEBURY, hundred of MUNSLOW, county of SALOP, containing 180 inhabitants."

" PEATON, a township in the parish of DIDDLEBURY, hundred of MUNSLOW, county of SALOP, containing 193 inhabitants."

" SUTTON, a township in the parish of DIDDLEBURY, hundred of MUNSLOW, county of SALOP, 6 miles (N.) from Ludlow, containing 180 inhabitants."

[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831](unless otherwise stated)

[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2015]