Description
Ashford-Bowdler, a parish in Salop, on the right bank of the river Teme, adjacent to Wooferton station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint (L. &. N.W. and G.W.) railway, 2 miles S of Ludlow, which is the post town. Acreage, 596; population, 126. Ashford Hall is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £80. The church is an old edifice, figuring picturesquely in a neat small village. It was restored in 1853, and again in 1871.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
