Country: | England |
Static Image Name: | Looking from St Peter, Easthope back to the village - geograph.org.uk - 1447531.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Looking from St Peter, Easthope towards the village |
Coordinates: | 52.554°N -2.642°W |
Official Name: | Easthope |
Label Position: | bottom |
Civil Parish: | Easthope |
Unitary England: | Shropshire |
Lieutenancy England: | Shropshire |
Region: | West Midlands |
Constituency Westminster: | Ludlow |
Post Town: | MUCH WENLOCK |
Postcode District: | TF13 |
Postcode Area: | TF |
Dial Code: | 01746 |
Os Grid Reference: | SO564953 |
Easthope is a small village and small civil parish in Shropshire, England.
Wenlock Edge passes through the parish, to the northwest of the village, along which is Easthope Wood. A hamlet with the same name (or spelled Easthopewood) is on the other side of the Edge, within the parish.
Easthope gives its name to Easthope Road in the nearby town of Church Stretton, as a result of local property developer Ralph Beaumont Benson (1862–1911), who lived at Lutwyche Hall near the village. He was also responsible for the naming of Essex Road (after his wife, Caroline Essex Cholmondeley), Beaumont Road and Lutwyche Road, all in Church Stretton.[1] He was the father of Stella Benson.