Chetwynd, Shropshire

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Chetwynd
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St Michael and All Angels Church, Chetwynd Park
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Chetwynd
Location within Shropshire
Population638 (2021 census)
Civil parish
  • Chetwynd
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police West Mercia
Fire Shropshire
Ambulance West Midlands
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52°47′19.3″N2°23′36.6″W / 52.788694°N 2.393500°W / 52.788694; -2.393500

Chetwynd is a rural civil parish just to the north of Newport, in the Telford and Wrekin district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire in England. In 2021 the parish had a population of 638.

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Although the parish contains no substantial nucleated settlements it includes the Chetwynd Park estate, in addition to Sambrook, Howle, Pickstock and a number of other small hamlets.

The north-eastern boundary of the parish is formed by an old Roman road, now a country lane, while its eastern boundary runs along the Lonco Brook. [1]

The parish church, dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels, was built in 1865 to the designs of Benjamin Ferrey [2] and contains a fine East window depicting "Christ adored by the hosts of Heaven", designed by John Hardman in 1881. The chancel windows, one of which is a war memorial to parish dead of World War I and designed by Dunstan Powell, [3] are also by Hardman, while the windows in the nave were designed by Francis Skeat in 1963. [4]

An F1/T2 tornado formed within the civil parish on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day. [5] The tornado later moved over Newport, causing some damage there.

The former RAF Chetwynd is nearby.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Chetwynd CP, ONS
  2. ↑ "Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries". The History of Chetwynd Church. Diocese of Lichfield. Archived from the original on 6 December 2010. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
  3. ↑ Francis, Peter (2013). Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance. YouCaxton Publications. p. 152. ISBN   978-1-909644-11-3.
  4. ↑ Newman, John; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006). The buildings of England: Shropshire. Yale University Press. p. 198. ISBN   0-300-12083-4 . Retrieved 6 January 2011.
  5. ↑ "European Severe Weather Database".


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