. The parish of Claverley, contains the townships of
1. Claverley,
2. Dallicote,
3. Farmcote,
4. Hopstone,
5. Ludstone,
6. Heathton,
7. Shipley & Rudge, (part of)
8. Sutton,
9. Woundwall, or Wondall,
10. Chicknell,
11. Beobridge,
12. Broughton,
13. Gatacre,
14. Aston.
Claverley is a very large parish, six miles east of Bridgnorth, in the Hundred of Brimstree, Rural Deanery of Bridgnorth, Arch-deaconry of Ludlow, and Diocese of Hereford. It comprises the hamlets of Aston, Beobridge, Broughton, Dalicott, Farmcote, Gatacre, Heathton, Hopstone, Ludstone, Shipley, Sutton, and Woundale. The area of the parish is 8,185 acres, and the population in 1901 was 1,358. A portion of the parish was separated in 1870, to form the new ecclesiastical parish of Tuck Hill.
At the Domesday Survey, Claverley was reputed to be in Staffordshire, but in Henry II.'s reign it was in Shropshire. Before the Conquest, Claverlege belonged to Algar, Earl of Mercia, but William I. granted it to Roger de Montgomery, the first Norman Earl of Shrewsbury. Earl Roger gave the whole tithes of Claverley, together with the Church, to the Collegiate Church of Quatford. After the rebellion of Robert de Belesme, the manor came into the hands of Henry II., and the Sheriff of Shropshire became the Fermor of the King's demesne at Claverley.
Of the numerous townships, the most important were Broughton, granted in 1155 to Robert de Giros; Beobridge, presumably granted to Roger Venator, and afterwards the inheritance of the Kilpecs; and Gatacre, from an early date the property of the knightly family of Gatacre, who are still the owners of this township.