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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CLEOBURY-MORTIMER	Shropshire	castle of the Mortimers stood here, and was reduced by Henry II.; but no traces of it now exist. The parish church is early English; and was attached to a religious house of the character of a mitred abbey. A free school, on the north side of the church, was founded by Sir L. W. Childe; and has an endowed income of £472. The town comprises one long street; has a post office‡ under Bewdley, three dissenting chapels, a chief inn, and a work-house; and is a polling-place. A weekly market is held on Wednesday; fairs	Imperial
  CLUN	Shropshire	Hopton-Castle. Acres, 31, 358. Pop., 4, 152. Houses, 836. The district comprehends also the sub-district of Norbury, containing	Imperial
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Hopton, Hunston, Ixworth, Sapeston, and Walsham-le-Willows; and the donative of Thorpe-by-Ixworth. The deanery of Camps contains the rectories of Balsham, Bartlow, Brinckley, Burrough-Green, Carleton, Castle	Imperial
  HEREFORD	Herefordshire	Castle, Lydham, Mindtowii, Mainstone, More, Wentnor, and Wistanston; the vicarages of Bishops-Castle, Bucknell, Burrington, Clun, Downton, Leintwardine, North Lydbury, and Stow; and the p. curacies of Bettws, Clunbury, Chapel-Lawn, Edgton, Knighton, Llanvair-Waterdine, Norbuiy, Sibdon, and Whittingstow. The deanery of Ludlow contains the rectories of Ashford-Carbonell, Little Hereford, Bitterley, Cold Weston, Culmington, Hope-Baggott, Ludlow, Onibury, Castle-Richards, and Silvington; the vicarages of Bromfield, Cainham, Diddlebur.y, Stauuton-Lacy, Stoke-St. Milborough, and Stokesay; and the p. curacies of Ashford-Bowdler, Middleton, Cainham-St. Paul, Clee-St. Margaret, Westhope, Halford, Hopton	Imperial
  HOPTON	Derbyshire	HOPTON , a township in Wirksworth parish, Derby; 2 miles W by S of Wirksworth. Acres, 643. Real property, £1, 545. Pop., 115. Houses, 20. Hopton Hall was the seat of Sir John Gell, who figured as a parliamentarian leader in the wars of Charles I. Good building limestone is extensively quarried, and was the material of Chatsworth House and Belvoir Castle	Imperial
  Hopton Castle	Shropshire	Hopton Castle , par. and vil., S. Shropshire, on branch of river Clun, 7 miles NE. of Knnghton, 2552 ac., pop. 117; has traces	Bartholomew
  HOPTON CASTLE	Shropshire	HOPTON CASTLE , a parish, with a village, in Clun district, Salop; on a branch of the river Clun, 2½ miles	Imperial
  LINLEY	Shropshire	Castle. Pop., 123. Linley Hall is the seat of the ancient family of More; one of whom was Col. More, the defender of Hopton	Imperial
  LISKEARD	Cornwall	castle, or strong fortress, supposed to have been erected by one of the Earls of Cornwall, stood on an eminence, still called Castle-hill, at the E end of the town; was described by Leland as, in his time, all in ruin, with only fragments of walls and is now represented by standing; only a public walk, with a new dwelling for the borough police in its centre. A convent of the nuns of Poor Clares was founded in the town by Richard, Earl of Cornwall; and a part of it still exists, has been converted into dwelling-houses	Imperial
  MUTFORD	Suffolk	Castle, Fritton, and Hopton. Acres, 35, 490. Poor-rates in 1863, £7, 459. Pop. in 1851, 20, 163; in 1861, 24,050. Houses	Imperial
  SHROPSHIRE, or Salop	Shropshire	Castle, and Bucknell. Offa's dyke and Wat's dyke run along much of the W border. Old castles are at Shrewsbury, Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Hopton	Imperial
  Stafford	Staffordshire	Hopton and Coton township, Stafford par., and part of Castle Church par.), 1012ac., pop. 19,977; 3 Banks, 2 newspapers	Bartholomew
  STAFFORD	Staffordshire	Castle-Church. Real property in 1860, £27,919; of which £1,065 are in gasworks. Amount of property and income tax charged in 1863, £1,066. Electors in 1833,1, 176; in 1863, 1,520. Pop. in 1851, 11,829; in 1861, 12,532. Houses, 2,241. The parish of S. is St. Mary and St. Chad; includes the townships of Whitgreave, Marston, Salt and Enson, and Hopton	Imperial
  STAFFORDSHIRE, or Stafford	Staffordshire	Hopton. Other public events are noticed in our articles on Burton-upon-Trent, Lichfield, Tamworth, and Tutbury.- Druidical stones are at Biddulph. Ancient British remains are at Beandesert, Apeswood, Stonall, Billington, Elford, and Okeover. The Roman Watling-street, the Roman Icknield-street, and the Via Devana traverse the county. Roman stations were at Wall, Knightley, Uttoxeter, and near Penkridge. Roman camps are at seven places; Saxon camps, at five; and Danish remains, at three. Old castles	Imperial

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