Bedstone, Shropshire

Description
Bedstone, a parish in Salop, about 1 1/2 mile equidistant from Hopton-Heath and Bucknell stations on the L. & N.W.R., and 6 miles NE by E of Knighton. Post town, Bucknell (R.S.O.) ; money order and telegraph office, Leintwardine, 4 miles S. Acreage, 831; population, 162. Bedstone Court and Bedstone House are the chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £317 with residence. The church is Norman, and has a piscina and some stained windows ; it was restored in 1879. Bedstone Court is the seat of the Ripley family, who are lords of the manor. The parish of Bedstone was part of the inheritance of Isabel de Say, Lady of Clare, which she brought to her husband, William Fitz Allan, in King Stephen's time. The first incumbent was Walter de Bedestone in 1283.