 The now-separate parish of Hopton Cangeford and the former parish of Cold Weston, merged into Clee St. Margaret in 1967, were once part of Stanton Lacy.Ludlow (with its church of St Laurence's) had become its own parish by 1200, carving out land largely from Stanton Lacy parish (otherwise from Ludford); Ludlow Castle also by this point constituted its own parish (with its chapel of St Mary Magdalene) - a situation that remained until 1901.What remained of Stanton Lacy's southern part was then unaffected until 1884; this southern part (south of the watercourse known as 'Hope Gutter') was entirely removed in that year with its transfer largely to Bromfield, but also Bitterley (land to the east of the Ledwyche Brook) and the new East Hamlet parish.