HOPE-BOWDLER, a parish in the hundred of
MUNSLOW, county of SALOP, 2 miles (E. S.E.) from
Church-Stretton, containing, with the township of Chilmick
with Ragdon, 179 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and
diocese of Hereford, ratedin the. king's books at
£6. 13. 4. C. P. Stainier, Esq. was patron in 1806.
The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.