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Farlow is a chapelry, fourteen miles south-west from Kidderminster, ten from Ludlow, and four from Cleobury Mortimer, in the Southern division of the county, Cleobury division of Stottesden hundred, Cleobury Mortimer union, and diocese of Hereford. Farlow was part of Herefordshire until October, 1844, when it became for all purposes part of Shropshire, under the Acts 2 and 3 William IV., c. 64, and 7 and 8 Vic., c. 61. The church of st. Giles is a stone building, erected in 1858, in the Early English style. The benefice is a vicarage, endowed with £100 a year rent-charge from Stottesden, together with the glebe lands belonging to the ancient chapelry of Farlow; the Duke of Cleveland is patron. Here is a school, and a charity left by J. Botfield, amounting to £24 yearly. The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel here. Thomas Woodward, Esq., is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil, gravel and rock. The area is 2,672 acres, and the population in 1861 was 304; gross estimated rental, £1,224; rateable value, £1,111.
Letters are received through Bewdley via Cleobury Mortimer. Cleobury Mortimer is the nearest money order office.
Parochial School, Miss Matilda Ann Briggs, mistress.

Williams Rev. John David, B.A. (Vicar)
Anslow James, blacksmith
Bowen Thomas, tailor
Bowen John, farmer, Botany bay
Bray Thomas, farmer and registrar of births and deaths
Dalloway John, farmer and miller
Downton Richard, shoe maker
Garbett John, cowkeeper
George William, farmer
Harris William, beer retailer
Haycocks Geo. wheelwright & carpenter
Jones John, shoe maker
Jones John, farmer, Down farm
Lane James, farmer
Martin John, wheelwright
Palmer Thomas, cowkeeper and coal dealer
Preene Thomas, builder
Price James, wheelwright
Stokes Charles, Gate Hangs Well Inn, and shopkeeper
Whale Wm. farmer and overseer
Yapp John, farmer

Source: Edward Cassey & Co’s, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire 1871