RATLINGHOPE, a parish in the hundred of PURSLOW,
county of SALOP, 4 miles (N. W. by W.) from
Church-Stretton, comprising the townships of Gatton
and Ratlinghope, and containing 277 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and
diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at
£3. 6. 8., endowed with £800 royal bounty, and £200
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Rev,
J. Hawkins. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret.
A priory of Augustine canons was founded here, under
the auspices of Llewellyn, Prince of North Wales, by
his kinsman, Walter Corbet, one of that order.