Description
Hope Bowdler, a parish in Salop, 2 miles E by S of Church Stretton. It includes the townships of Chelmick and Eagdon, and its post town is Church Stretton (R.S.O,)' Acreage, 1730; population, 156. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £182 with residence.. The church is ancient, and was rebuilt in 1863.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
