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Hopton Wafers is a small village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 753.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Civil Parish population 2011 )〕 It is located on the A4117 road to the west of the market town of Cleobury Mortimer. Its unusual-sounding name is derived from Old English ''hop'' (a side valley running off a larger valley, originally from a Celtic word) and ''tun'' (farm or settlement), along with the name of Robert de Wafre, an early holder of the manor.〔Gelling and Foxall, ''The place-names of Shropshire, Volume 1'', English Place-Name Society, 1990, p.159〕 A post-medieval glassworks was located in Hopton Wafers which produced glass in the 17th and 18th centuries.〔http://search.shropshirehistory.org.uk/collections/getrecord/CCS_MSA3731/〕 The village church, St Michael and All Angels, was built in 1825: a Norman church had previously stood on the site, but had become dilapidated. The works were funded by Thomas Botfield, who had purchased the manor in 1812.〔(Cleobury Benefice ) Hopton Wafers〕 There is a pub in the village, named ''The Crown at Hopton''.〔(The Crown at Hopton )〕 The county's last remaining emergency escape lane (a sand trap for vehicles unable to brake) was removed in 2014 after being deemed both obsolete and potentially dangerous; it was located at the foot of Hopton Bank (on the A4117).〔(Shropshire Star ) ''Shropshire motorists put faith in brakes as escape lane reaches end of road'' (21 May 2014)〕 The 2L bus service (Ludlow-Bewdley-Kidderminster) provides regular public buses Monday to Saturday.〔(Worcestershire bus info ) 2L route〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hopton Wafers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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