Place:Monk Hopton, Shropshire, England

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NameMonk Hopton
Alt namesMonk-Hoptonsource: Family History Library Catalog
Monkhoptonsource: Victoria County History, Wikipedia
TypeChapelry, Civil parish
Coordinates52.541°N 2.557°W
Located inShropshire, England
See alsoWenlock Franchise, Shropshire, Englandliberty in which it was located until 1836
Much Wenlock, Shropshire, Englandmunicipal borough in which it was located 1836-1889
Bridgnorth Rural, Shropshire, Englandrural district 1894-1974
Bridgnorth District, Shropshire, Englanddistrict municipality 1974-2009
Shropshire District, Shropshire, Englandunitary authority covering the area since 2009
source: Family History Library Catalog


the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Monk Hopton is a hamlet and civil parish in Shropshire, England with a Anglican church dedicated to St. Peter. It is 6.5 miles south of Much Wenlock.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Monk Hopton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"HOPTON (Monk), a village and a parish in Bridgnorth [registration] district, Salop [or Shropshire]. The village stands 4½ miles S of Much-Wenlock [railway] station, and 7 W by N of Bridgnorth; and has a post office under Bridgnorth.
"The parish comprises 2,208 acres. Real property: £1,623. Population: 175. Houses: 33. The surface is undulating. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value: £56. Patron: Lord Wenlock. The church was recently rebuilt."

Monk Hopton, being south of Much Wenlock, joined its neighbouring parishes in being transferred to Bridgnorth Rural District on its formation in 1894 and moved into Bridgnorth District in 1974.

Research tips

  • The historical short form for Shropshire was "Salop". This is quite often found in archive material.
  • Shropshire Archives, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury SY1 2AQ
  • Shropshire Family History Society.
  • The GENUKI main page for Shropshire provides information on various topics covering the whole of the county, and there is also a link to a list of parishes. Under each parish there is a list of the settlements within it and brief description of each. This is a list of pre-1834 ancient or ecclesiastical parishes but there are suggestions as to how to find parishes set up since then.
  • GENUKI also provides transcriptions of parish registers for numerous parishes throughout Shropshire. These will be noted at the bottom of this list as time permits for the parishes involved. Each register is preceded by historical notes from the editor-transciber and other details than simply births, marriages and deaths that have been found in the individual books from the parishes. These registers probably only go up to 1812 when the proscribed style for registers across the country was altered.
  • GENUKI lists under each parish further references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area. (URLs for these other websites may not be up to date.)
  • The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date and from more recent data. The wiki has a link to English Jurisdictions 1851. There is a list of all the parishes in existence in 1851 with maps indicating their boundaries. The website is very useful for finding the ecclesiastical individual parishes within large cities and towns.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time, Shropshire, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are similar pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions that existed pre-1974. Descriptions provided are usually based on a gazetteer of 1870-72 which often provides brief notes on the economic basis of the settlement and significant occurences through its history.
  • The two maps below indicate the boundaries between parishes, etc., but for a more detailed view of a specific area try a map from this selection. The oldest series are very clear at the third magnification offered. Comparing the map details with the GENUKI details for the same area is well worthwhile.
  • Map of Shropshire illustrating urban and rural districts in 1900 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. Parish boundaries and settlements within parishes are shown. (Unfortunately the online copy of this map has pencil codings in each parish which make it difficult to see the orignal.)
  • Map of Shropshire urban and rural districts in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. Parish boundaries and settlements within parishes are shown. This is not a repeat of the first map. There were a number of changes to urban and rural district structure in the 1930s.
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