North Shropshire was a local government district in Shropshire, England. The district council was based at Edinburgh House, in Wem. Other settlements included the towns of Ellesmere, Market Drayton, Wem and Whitchurch, as well as the large villages of Shawbury and Baschurch. The district bordered onto Wales, Cheshire and Staffordshire as well as the Shropshire districts of Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Atcham and the unitary Telford and Wrekin.
Adbaston is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Staffordshire.
Stokesay is a historic hamlet in Shropshire, England just south of Craven Arms on the A49 road, also fleetingly visible from the Shrewsbury to Hereford Welsh Marches railway line.
New Invention is a hamlet in Shropshire, England on the A488 between Clun and Knighton. It comprises little more than four houses around a cross-roads and a neighbouring farm called The Weir, known in history as the Wear or Ware. Of the four houses, one was a blacksmith's shop, one a pub called the Stag's Head, and one a Methodist chapel built in 1874. It served as one of many local locations for the film Gone to Earth, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The River Redlake passes through. The population as of the 2011 census is listed under Clun.
The Rev. John Ellerton was a hymnodist and hymnologist.
Capel is a hamlet and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The parish is located on the north of the Weald, 3 miles (4.8 km) to the east of Tonbridge. The southern part of the parish lies within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, whilst most of the land also falls within the Metropolitan Green Belt. As well as Capel itself, the parish includes the communities of Castle Hill, Colts Hill, Five Oak Green, Postern, Tudeley and Whetsted.
Cheswardine is a rural village and civil parish in north east Shropshire, England. The village lies close to the border with Staffordshire and is about 8 miles north of Newport and 5 miles south east of Market Drayton. At the 2001 Census, the parish, had a population of 991 people, increasing to 1,076 at the 2011 Census.
Hinstock is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England.
Uckerby is a hamlet and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It situated at a crossroads on the road between Scorton and Moulton. The hamlet lies 9.2 miles (14.8 km) north west of the county town of Northallerton.
Sir James Reginald Alfred Bottomley, was a British diplomat.
William Emes was an English landscape gardener.
Sibdon Carwood is a hamlet and small parish in Shropshire, England. To its east is the small market town of Craven Arms.
Minton is a hamlet in Shropshire, England.
Charles Donaldson-Hudson was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885.
Homer is a small village in Shropshire, England, north of the town of Much Wenlock.
Sambrook is a small village in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, where it is part of the civil parish of Chetwynd, north of the town of Newport. To the north is the small hamlet of Ellerton, with Howle to the west and Pickstock to the south-east.
Goldstone is a small hamlet in eastern Shropshire, England, in the civil parish of Cheswardine. It lies in an isolated rural area north of Hinstock and Ellerton, around 5 miles south of the nearest town, Market Drayton.
Strefford is a historic hamlet in Shropshire, England.
Cheswardine is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 21 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish includes the village of Cheswardine, and smaller settlements including Ellerton, and is otherwise rural. The Shropshire Union Canal passes through the parish, and associated with his are eleven listed buildings, namely eight bridges and three mileposts. The other listed buildings are a church and associated structures, a watermill, a country house, and smaller houses and farmhouses.
Stockton is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 20 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, four are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. It includes the villages of Stockton and Norton, and is otherwise mainly rural. In the parish is Apley Park, a country estate that contains a country house, a model farm, and other listed structures. Most of the other listed buildings are houses, the earliest of which are timber framed, and the other listed buildings include a church, its churchyard walls and rectory, a barn, a school, and village stocks and a whipping post.
