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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Monkhopton like this:
HOPTON (Monk), a village and a parish in Bridgnorth district, Salop. The village stands 4½ miles S of Much-Wenlock r. 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. Pop., 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.
Monkhopton is now part of SHROPSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SHROPSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Monkhopton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Monkhopton in Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10422
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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