Hopton-in-the-Hole, or Hopton Cangeford,

is a small parish in the lower division of the Munslow hundred, four miles N.E. from Ludlow, containing 320 acres of land. At the census in 1801 there were 35 inhabitants, and in 1841 six houses and a population of thirty souls. The church is a small unpretending structure of brick, and the living a perpetual curacy returned in the king’s book at £5. 13s. 8d., now returned at £51 in the patronage of Sir W. R. Broughton. There is no resident clergyman in the parish. The resident farmers are Thomas Green and William Roberts.