HOPTON-WAFERS, a parish in the hundred of
STOTTESDEN, county of SALOP, 2 miles ("W.N.W.) from
Cleobury-Mortimer, containing 459 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and
diocese of Hereford, rated in the Icing's books at
£ 5. 16. 5. Thomas Botfield, Esq. was patron in 1820.
The church is dedicated to St. Mary. At an early period
here was a castle of great strength, which, in
1643, during the parliamentary war, was seized for the
king.