Hope's Cross
Other OS name in the Parish of Rushbury
Historical Forms
- The Hops Cross 1622 SRO1037/21/187
Etymology
, The Hops Cross 1622SRO 1037 /21 /187 . The ' cross ' is the junction of two footpaths with the Ludlow / Wenlock road at the tip of the tapering projection in the S . of Rushbury parish . Upper , Farther and Long Hope are mentioned 1785SRO 4835 /2 , and in TA fields called Hope Common , Leasow and Meadow and The Hope occupy the area of the projection , and Hope Coppice adjoins . The narrow valley here encloses the mouth of a tributary of the R . Corve, and Lower Stanway andStanway Manor are higher up the stream. Lower Stanway is in a positioncomparable to that of the -hope settlements noted supra , and it is possible that Stanway has supplanted Hope as the name of the settlement .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Lakehouse
- Longville in the Dale
- Lushcott
- Court Ho
- Musgreve
- Oak Wd, Oakwood Fm
- Ape Dale
- Coats
- Gilberries
- Stanway
- Wilderhope
- The Ditches
- Lutwyche
Other OS name
- The Larches
- Longville Coppice
- New Pltn
- Oakham
- Sapling Coppice
- Warwicks Head
- The Wood
- Woodside
- Black Wd
- Coats Wd
- Crab Wd
- Heath Brook
- Heath Common
- Hedgefields Barn
- High Wd
- Manor Fm
- Roman Bank
- Hill End
- Sharpstones
- Wondrell Coppice
- Brook Ho
- Coley Brook
- Hargrove Wd, Hargrove Cottage and Hargrove Fm
- Lutwyche Arms Inn
- Peartree
- Plough Inn
- Wallsbank
- Bloemfontain Gorse
- The Bog
- Brick Kiln Pltn
- Crowfield Pltn
- Fegg
- Greens Rough
- Murder Pool
- Pilgrim Cottage and Pilgrim Lane
- Pudding Bag
- Rickhouse Coppice
- Wilderhope Coppice
- Wrensnest
- The Yeld