DOWNTON, a parish in the hundred of WIGMORE, county of HEREFORD, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Ludlow, containing 111 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in thr king's books at £4.10., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Giles.