ELTON, a parish in the hundred of WIGMORE, county of HEREFORD, 4 miles (S.W. by W.) from Ludlow, containing 93 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, united with Yarpole to the rectory of Croft, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford, endowed with £ 800 royal bounty. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.