Pickstock

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Pickstock
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Minor road through Pickstock, Shropshire
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Pickstock
Location within Shropshire
OS grid reference SJ726230
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town NEWPORT
Postcode district TF10
Dialling code 01952
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Fire Shropshire
Ambulance West Midlands
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UK
England
Shropshire
52°48′14″N2°24′22″W / 52.804°N 2.406°W / 52.804; -2.406

Pickstock is a hamlet in the civil parish of Chetwynd, in the Telford and Wrekin district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is near the town of Newport. In 1870-72 the township had a population of 157. [1]

Its name is of Old English origin and may mean "Pices' stoc ("dependent settlement")". [2] Situated in an isolated rural area, it was an outlying township of the manor, and later parish, of Edgmond. [3]

Pickstock is south-east of the village of Sambrook and the River Meese (where there was once a watermill) runs nearby. The Pickstock Cross, the stump of an old preaching cross of unknown age, lies in a private garden in the village. [4]

See also

References

  1. "Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Pickstock". A Vision of Britain through Time . Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  2. Bowcock, E. W. Shropshire place names, Wilding & Son, 1923, p.182
  3. Eyton, R. W. Antiquities of Shropshire v.9, 1859, p.125
  4. Pickstock Cross, Newport History Society