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  # The Register of Ratlinghope
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### W. G. D. Fletcher
  
  
  This page formatted 2007 Blackmask Online.
  
  
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  Transcribed from the 1909 Shropshire Parish Register Society edition by
  
  
  David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
  
  
  
  
  
  The Register of Ratlinghope.
  
  
  Ratlinghope is a parish situate on the road from Shrewsbury to
  
  
  Bishop's Castle, four miles west from Church Stretton and twelve miles
  
  
  south from Shrewsbury, in the hundred of Purslow, rural deanery of
  
  
  Bishop's Castle, archdeaconry of Ludlow, and diocese of Hereford. The
  
  
  township of Gatten is in Ford hundred. Its area is 5,456 acres, of
  
  
  which 3,756 are arable and pasture, 200 woodland, and about 1,500
  
  
  common. The population in 1901 was 197. The surface is hilly, and the
  
  
  soil is sand and clay, on a rocky subsoil. An old Roman road, the
  
  
  Portway, runs between Ratlinghope and Church Stretton, and is continued
  
  
  along the crest of the Longmy