East Hamlet was a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

situated immediately to the east and northeast of the

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Ludlow Ludlow () is a market town in Shropshire, England. The town is significant in the history of the Welsh Marches and in relation to Wales. It is located south of Shrewsbury and north of Hereford, on the A49 road which bypasses the town. The ...

Shropshire Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to ...

. The name, which dates much further back than the creation of the civil parish, refers to a small settlement in the eastern area of Ludlow.

History

The civil parish was formed in 1884 when the southern part of

Stanton Lacy Stanton Lacy is a small village and geographically large civil parish located in south Shropshire, England, north of Ludlow. The River Corve flows through the parish, on its way south towards the River Teme, and passes immediately to the west o ...

parish that bordered Ludlow was transferred to Bromfield, Bitterley and a third part to the new civil parish of East Hamlet. Due to the eastwards growth of Ludlow's urban area, East Hamlet had parts ceded to Ludlow's civil parish in 1901 and again in 1934. In 1987 the remainder (a small rump of what was originally a small parish) was largely transferred to Ludford civil parish (the part to the east of the A49 by-pass) and small parts to both Ludlow (the part within the by-pass) and Bromfield (Wigley and Fishmore). This abolished East Hamlet, with Ludford named as its successor parish.

Present-day

The post office on Gravel Hill in Ludlow is still formally East Hamlet Post Office. The neighbouring

Ludlow Hospital Ludlow Hospital is an National Health Service (England), NHS community hospital located on Gravel Hill in Ludlow, Shropshire, England. It is managed by the Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust. History The facility has its origins in the Ludlo ...

is still sometimes known as the East Hamlet hospital, the former workhouse for "lunatics, idiots, imbeciles and vagrants".British Listed Buildings
East Hamlet Hospital, Ludlow Otherwise, the name is rarely used or seen in the present day, and none of the current wards or electoral divisions in the area use the name (it was last used as a

South Shropshire South Shropshire was, between 1974 and 2009, a local government district in south west Shropshire, England. South Shropshire was the most rural district of one of the UK's most rural counties, the population of the district was 40,410 in 2001 s ...

district ward circa 2000). Two residential roads — Hamlet Road and Hamlet Close — commemorate the East Hamlet name, at least in part.

References

External links

Vision of Britain
East Hamlet {{coord, 52.373, -2.713, region:GB_type:city, display=title Former civil parishes in Shropshire Ludlow