[3] The loud waters are those of the River Teme, which flow rapidly through the area (now largely tamed by weirs).

[9] At the time of the Domesday Book, Ludford came within the Herefordshire hundred of Wolphy, whilst Steventon and the Sheet (as well as Ludlow, by way of it being part of Stanton Lacy at the time) came within Culvestan, a Shropshire hundred originating in Anglo-Saxon times but which ended in the reign of Henry I. Steventon, the Sheet and Holdgate Fee (see section below) became part of Munslow hundred after Culvestan's dissolution, as did Ludlow.

[citation needed] In 1884 the part of the parish to the east of Ledwyche Brook was transferred to Bitterley; in the same year, the civil parish of East Hamlet was formed out of Stanton Lacy, resulting in Ludford and Stanton Lacy no longer bordering one another.

At the same time, the boundary with Ludlow in this eastern area was re-aligned along the A49 by-pass (though Foldgate remains within Ludford).

Ludlow's parish was established upon land mostly from Stanton Lacy, but also with some from Ludford (which had extended in a northeast direction from the village, crossing the ford).

The name came about as for a long period it was an estate in land (a fee) belonging to the manor of Steventon, which in turn was owned by the lordship of Castle Holdgate.

[16] Common with the other parts of Ludford's parish that lay north of the Teme, it belonged to Shropshire and the hundred of Culvestan, later Munslow.

[16] The Sheet and neighbouring Foldgate are the locations of major new developments on the edge of Ludlow with a retail and business park to provide new jobs and amenities.

Rocks Green has recently had a new housing estate built (at the Dun Cow farm) and is a location for further urban expansion of Ludlow.

[18] The Elan aqueduct passes through the parish, largely in tunnel, and crosses the Teme by way of a bridge near Steventon.

This ancient route then carried on in a southeasterly direction towards Tenbury and Worcester via another fording of the Teme at Steventon.

St Catherine's Chapel existed in the medieval era on the Ludford end of the bridge, on the west side.

[20] In January 2011 part of the masonry on one side of the central arch collapsed into the river below, temporarily closing off the bridge to traffic.

[24] In 1832, Dr Thomas Lloyd, a Ludlow doctor and amateur geologist, met Roderick Murchison at Ludford Corner to study the rocks exposed along the River Teme and on Whitcliffe, advancing Murchison's theory for a Silurian System that he was to publish in 1839.

[25] Immediately above the topmost layer of the marine rock sequence forming Murchison's Silurian period was a thin layer of dark sand containing numerous remains of early fish, especially their scales, along with plant debris, spores and microscopic mites.

The science of geology has taken a number of local names from these studies and now applies them worldwide, in recognition of the importance of this area to scientific understanding, for example Ludlow Series and Whitcliffe Formation.

There is an Anglican parish church, dedicated to Saint Giles, with its own small churchyard, which is situated at the centre of the village.

[27] It is a grade II* ("two star") listed building with origins in the 11th century,[28][29] when it was a chapel of Bromfield Priory.