Description
Downton, a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Teme, near the boundary with Salop, 5 miles SW of Bromfield station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint (L. & N.W.R. and G.W.R.) railway, and 5 1/2 W by S of Ludlow. Post town, Ludlow; money order and telegraph office, Leintwardine. Acreage of the civil parish, 1220; population, 162 ; of the ecclesiastical, 156. Downton Castle is a spacious modern edifice in mixed Grecian and Gothic styles, built by R. Payne Knight, and stands amid romantic scenery. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £150 with residence. The church was built in 1862, and is in the Early English style, somewhat richly decorated.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
