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| [[England]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Shropshire]] | | [[England]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Shropshire]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Shropshire Parishes]] |
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| [[Image:St_Luke_Hodnet_Shropshire.jpg|thumb|right|Hodnet St Luke]] | | [[Image:St Luke Hodnet Shropshire.jpg|thumb|right]] |
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| == Parish History == | | == Parish History == |
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| Hodnet St Luke is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire. Weston under Redcastle is a chapelry of Hodnet. Other places in the parish include: Hawkstone, Hawkstone Park, Hopton, Hopton and Espley, Kenstone, Wollerton, Losford, Lostford, Marchamley, Peplow, and Little Bolas. <br>
| | HODNET (St. Peter and St. Paul),'''a parish''', in the union of Drayton, Drayton division of the hundred of North Bradford, N. division of Shropshire, 6 miles (S. W.) from Drayton. Hodnet includes the chapelry of Weston-under-Redcastle. <ref>Lewis, Samuel A., [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51036 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848)''], pp. 524-527. Date accessed: 18 June 2012.</ref> |
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| In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hodnet like this:
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| HODNET, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Salop; the village and the sub-district in Market-Drayton district, the parish partly also in Wem district. The village stands near the Wellington and Market-Drayton railway, 5½ miles SSW of Market-Drayton; and has a post office under Market-Drayton, a r. station, an inn, and fairs on 15 May and 20 Oct.—The parish contains also the townships of Little Bolas, Hawkstone, Hopton, Kenstone, Losford, Marchamley, Peplow, and Wollerton in Market-Drayton district, and the chapelry of Weston-and-Wixhill-under-Redcastle in Wem district. Acres, 16, 399. Real property, £18, 767. Pop., 1, 979. Houses, 395. The manor was known at Domesday as Odenett; was held by Roger Montgomery; and passed to the Vernons and others. Hodnet Hall was the seat of Richard Heber, the "Atticus" of Dibdin's "Biblomania;" and had, in his time, a great library, which was sold off at his death. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £1, 884.* Patron, A.H. Percy, Esq. The church is decorated English; has some painted windows and a fine octagonal tower; was recently well repaired; and contains tombs of the Vernons and the Hills, and a beautiful monument to Bishop Heber, who was rector upwards of fifteen years. There is a chapel of ease at Peplow. The donative of Weston-under-Redcastle is a separate charge. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, an endowed school with £8 a year, and other charities with £118. Lord J. Beauclerk was rector.—The sub-district contains the main part of Hodnet parish and four other parishes. Acres, 32, 204. Pop., 5, 095. Houses, 1, 042.<br><br>
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| ==== Census records ==== | | ==== Census records ==== |
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| {{Expand section|any unique information, such as ''the census for X year was destroyed''}} | | {{Expand section|any unique information, such as ''the census for X year was destroyed''}} |
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| == Web sites == | | == Web sites == |
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| {{expand section|any additional relevant sites that aren't mentioned above}} | | == Reference<br> == |
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| [[Category:Shropshire]] | | [[Category:Shropshire]] |