HOPTON (MONK), a parish within the liberty of
WENLOCK, county of SALOP, 4 miles
(S.) from Much Wenlock, containing 168 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage
of Much Wenlock, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and
diocese of Hereford, endowed with  £, 800 royal bounty.
Sir-R. Lawley, Bart, was patron in 1820. The church
is dedicated to St. Peter.