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LUDFORD: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

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"LUDFORD, a parish partly in the hundred of WOLPHY, county of HEREFORD, but chiefly in the hundred of MUNSLOW, county of SALOP, a mile (S.) from Ludlow, containing 280 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £ 800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of E. L. Charlton, Esq. An hospital for six poor infirm persons was founded here, in 1672, by Sir Job Charlton, who endowed it with certain messuages and lands now let for £ 63 per annum. It was incorporated by the style of the "Warden and Poor of the Hospital of Ludford," who had a common seal, but the distinction of Warden has long ceased to exist."

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

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