Hopesay is a small village, and
civil parish
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, in south
Shropshire
Shropshire (; abbreviated SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West M ...
, England. The population of the parish at the
2011 census was 561.
The name 'Hopesay' derives from "Hope de Say", the valley of Picot de Say, a
Norman
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Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 9th and 10th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norma ...
baron who held the
manor of neighbouring
Sibdon Carwood
Sibdon Carwood is a hamlet and Civil parishes in England, parish in Shropshire, England. To the east is the town of Craven Arms.
Etymology and history
The place is occasionally written simply with the first part of the name, which has been spe ...
and whose power base was the nearby
Clun Castle
Clun Castle is a medieval ruined castle in Clun, Shropshire, England. Clun Castle was established by the Norman lord Robert de Say after the Norman invasion of England and went on to become an important Marcher lord castle in the 12th century, ...
. Though most of the Norman influence has been lost, the church tower does date back to Norman times.
The 13th-century church of
St Mary
Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many of them mentioned in the Litany of Loreto. ...
, restored c.1880, is a Grade I listed building.
The village has an active community though in recent decades has suffered from depopulation, leading to the closure of both the village shop and Post office, and the school (closed in 1989).
Within the parish lies the larger village of
Aston on Clun
Aston on Clun is a village in south Shropshire, England.
It lies near to the River Clun, with the brook from Hopesay flowing through the village itself, and is on the B4368 road between the towns of Clun and Craven Arms. The village of Broo ...
, and the village of
Broome which has a
railway station
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on the
Heart of Wales Line. The hamlet of Basford, in the north of the parish, straddles the boundary with
Edgton parish.
The writer and adventurer
Vivienne de Watteville
Vivienne Florence Beatrice de Watteville (17 August 1900 – 27 June 1957) was a British travel writer and adventurer, author of two books based on her experiences in East Africa in the 1920s, ''Out in the Blue'' (1927) and ''Speak to the Earth' ...
(Vivienne Goschen) is buried at Hopesay.
[Perrin, Jim, ''Shipton and Tilman'' (London, 2013), p.115]
See also
*
Listed buildings in Hopesay
References
External links
Civil parishes in Shropshire
Villages in Shropshire
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