HOPTON CASTLE: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

"HOPTON CASTLE, a parish in the hundred of PURSLOW, county of SALOP, 9 miles (S. S. E.) from Bishop's Castle, containing 150 inhabitants. The livin is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £5, and in the patronage of Thomas Beale, Esq. -The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Hopton castle, of which there are now but slight remains, was given by Henry II. to Walter de Clifford; it was held for the king during the parliamentary war, but surrendered after a fortnight's siege, upon which most of the royalists who formed the garrison were put to the sword> and the governor was conveyed to Ludlow castle, and there imprisoned."

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

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