Lilleshall

Lilleshall
Lilleshall
	; St Michael and All Angels church
	Lilleshall Location within Shropshire
OS grid reference	SJ731155
Civil parish	Lilleshall;
Unitary authority	Telford and Wrekin ;
Ceremonial county	Shropshire ;
Region	West Midlands ;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWPORT
Postcode district	TF10
Dialling code	01952
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Shropshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	The Wrekin ;
	List of places UK England Shropshire 52°44′13″N2°23′53″W / 52.737°N 2.398°W Coordinates: 52°44′13″N2°23′53″W / 52.737°N 2.398°W

Last updated December 11, 2022

Lilleshall is a village and civil parish in the county of Shropshire, England.

Local governance

A civil parish was formed on 1 April 2015 from Lilleshall, Donnington and Muxton,^[2] though a previous parish also called "Lilleshall" existed.^[3]

Layout

There is a monument, a cricket club, a tennis club, a church and a primary school clustered around a bracken-covered hill named Lilleshall Hill.

Lilleshall Abbey

Lilleshall Abbey, some distance to the east of the village, was an Augustinian house, founded in the twelfth century, the ruins of which are protected by English Heritage. After the dissolution of the monasteries the estate was bought by the Wolverhampton wool merchant James Leveson. His family held the site for four generations and, after two owners died without issue, it passed into the hands of the related Leveson-Gower family in the late 17th century.

Industry

Lilleshall is surrounded by farmland. The village and surrounds were the site of considerable early industrial development from as early as the 16th century, when Walter Leveson (1551-1602) established a bloomery. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries relatively shallow deposits of coal and limestone were mined, with resultant subsidence. The history of the mining of limestone is reflected in the naming of a road called 'Limekiln Lane' in Lilleshall. The former limestone mines are tucked away in treeland at the Newport end of the village, locally known as "the Slang", which is effectively several pits now filled with water, popular with local fishermen and unpopular with local parents of young children - the water is deep and the former minepits area quite dark, abandoned and dangerous.^{[ citation needed ]}

At a similar time to the mining of limestone an early example of the English canal network was dug, the Donnington Wood Canal and its Lilleshall branch which were connected by an inclined plane, reflected in the naming of a road named The Incline in Lilleshall.

Lilleshall Hall

The Leveson-Gower Dukes of Sutherland became one of the richest families in the United Kingdom partly as a result of this industrial development and in the late nineteenth century built a new residence, Lilleshall Hall which lies at the heart of the estate a mile from the village. The Sutherland estate was sold off between 1915 and 1917 and the hall eventually passed into state ownership as a sporting facility. It is now the Lilleshall Hall National Sports Centre,^[4] once the site of the Football Association youth academy, and now the home of British gymnastics and archery. Lilleshall Hall Golf Club is also in the grounds of Lilleshall Hall.

Lilleshall Monument/Sutherland Monument

The Lilleshall Monument is a 70-foot (21 m) high obelisk, a local landmark which stands on top of Lilleshall Hill and was erected in honour of the 1st Duke of Sutherland.

Sutherland Monument

Notable residents

John Mirk (active c.1380–1420), English liturgical writer, was a Canon at Lilleshall Abbey.
Walter Leveson (1550–1602), politician, and his son Vice-Admiral Richard Leveson (c.1570-1605) lived in a lodge in grounds of the dissolved Lilleshall Abbey.^[5]
Jimmy Poppitt (1875–1930), footballer who played Football League for Lincoln City, Notts County and Wolverhampton Wanderers, was born in Lilleshall.^[6]

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References

↑ "Church of St Michael and All Angels, Lilleshall, Donnington and Muxton". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
↑ "The Borough of Telford & Wrekin (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order No. 2 of 2015" (PDF). Lgbce. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
↑ "Lilleshall AP/CP through time". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
↑ Ayto, John; Crofton, Ian (2005). Brewer's Britain & Ireland. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 663. ISBN 0-304-35385-X.
↑ G C Baugh, C R Elrington (Editors), A P Baggs, D C Cox, Jessie McFall, P A Stamper, A J L Winchester (1985). "Lilleshall: Manor and other estates". A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 11: Telford. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 12 September 2013.{{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
↑ Lilleshall at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)

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[1] "Church of St Michael and All Angels, Lilleshall, Donnington and Muxton". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 28 January 2014.

[2] "The Borough of Telford & Wrekin (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order No. 2 of 2015" (PDF). Lgbce. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.

[3] "Lilleshall AP/CP through time". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 15 March 2018.

[4] Ayto, John; Crofton, Ian (2005). Brewer's Britain & Ireland. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 663. ISBN 0-304-35385-X.

[shrops-5] G C Baugh, C R Elrington (Editors), A P Baggs, D C Cox, Jessie McFall, P A Stamper, A J L Winchester (1985). "Lilleshall: Manor and other estates". A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 11: Telford. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 12 September 2013.{{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[ENFA-6] Lilleshall at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)

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