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Hopton Wafers
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Hopton Wafers
Location within Shropshire
Population753 (2011)
OS grid reference SO636765
Civil parish
  • Hopton Wafers
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town KIDDERMINSTER
Postcode district DY14
Dialling code 01299
Police West Mercia
Fire Shropshire
Ambulance West Midlands
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Shropshire
52°23′06″N2°32′02″W / 52.385°N 2.534°W / 52.385; -2.534

Hopton Wafers is a small village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England. The population of the public parish at the 2011 census was 753. [1] It is located on the A4117 road to the west of the market town of Cleobury Mortimer.

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Its unusual-sounding name is derived from Old English hop (a side valley running off a larger valley, originally from a Celtic word) and tun (farm or settlement), along with the name of Robert de Wafre, an early holder of the manor. [2]

A post-medieval glassworks was located in Hopton Wafers which produced glass in the 17th and 18th centuries. [3]

The village church, St Michael and All Angels, was built in 1825: a Norman church had previously stood on the site, but had become dilapidated. The works were funded by Thomas Botfield, who had purchased the manor in 1812. [4] The church contains two war memorials: a marble plaque to men of the parish of Hopton Wafers with Doddington who died serving in the World Wars and another plaque to Lance Corporal Samuel Edwards, KSLI, who was killed in World War I in 1915. [5] The churchyard contains war graves of another KSLI soldier who died in the latter war and of a Royal Army Service Corps soldier of World War II who are among those listed on the parish memorial. [6] [5]

There is a pub in the village, named The Crown at Hopton. [7]

The county's last remaining emergency escape lane (a sand trap for vehicles unable to brake) was removed in 2014 after being deemed both obsolete and potentially dangerous; it was located at the foot of Hopton Bank (on the A4117). [8]

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The 292 bus service (Ludlow-Bewdley-Kidderminster) operated by Diamond Bus, provides regular public buses Monday to Saturday. [10]

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References

  1. "Civil Parish population 2011" . Retrieved 27 November 2015.
  2. Gelling and Foxall, The place-names of Shropshire, Volume 1, English Place-Name Society, 1990, p.159
  3. "Shropshire's History Advanced Search | Shropshire's History Advanced Search". search.shropshirehistory.org.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  4. Cleobury Benefice Hopton Wafers
  5. 1 2 Francis, Peter (2013). Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance. YouCaxton Publications. p. 128. ISBN   978-1-909644-11-3.
  6. CWGC cemetery report casualty list. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  7. "The Crown Inn at Hopton Wafers DY14 0NB". crownathopton.co.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  8. Shropshire Star Shropshire motorists put faith in brakes as escape lane reaches end of road (21 May 2014)
  9. There is a small family farm owned by the Auger family located in Hopton Wafers outputting fresh fruit to the surrounding area.
  10. Diamond Bus 292

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