LR, people are often named after the town the came from, seldom after the town where they live. So your ancestors would have had to move away to be called after Hodnet. (It's a lovely place by the way).

Genealogy man, it's a lot less common for Ireland than it is for Scotland, where whole communities were forced to become Canadians, or Scandinavia, where American land agents would recruit whole villages\ to emigrate to the railway concessions out west (see Dee Brown),