Quina Brook

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Quina Brook
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Quina Brook
Location within Shropshire
OS grid reference SJ524329
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SHREWSBURY
Postcode district SY4
Dialling code 01939
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52°53′28″N2°42′32″W / 52.891°N 2.709°W / 52.891; -2.709 Coordinates: 52°53′28″N2°42′32″W / 52.891°N 2.709°W / 52.891; -2.709

Quina Brook is a hamlet in north Shropshire, near the border between England and Wales. Population details for the 2011 census are found under Wem Rural.

Hamlet (place) Small human settlement in a rural area

A hamlet is a small human settlement. In different jurisdictions and geographies, hamlets may be the size of a town, village or parish, be considered a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. The word and concept of a hamlet have roots in the Anglo-Norman settlement of England, where the old French hamlet came to apply to small human settlements. In British geography, a hamlet is considered smaller than a village and distinctly without a church or other place of worship.

Wem Rural

Wem Rural is a large civil parish in Shropshire, England that encircles, but does not include, the market town of Wem. It includes the villages of Aston and Barkers Green, Coton, Edstaston, Quina Brook and Pepperstreet, Horton, Newtown, Wolverley and Northwood and Tilley. Prees railway station is also in the parish. The population of the Civil Parish at the 2011 census was 1,659.

Quina Brook was the final destination of an arm of the Ellesmere Canal. This arm was originally going to terminate at Prees. The arm is now known as the Press Branch of the Llangollen Canal, and is navigavable for about a mile to Whixall Marina, the following 3/4 mile is still followable on the towpath as it passes through Prees Branch Canal Nature Reserve. [1]

Ellesmere Canal

The Ellesmere Canal was a waterway in England and Wales that was planned to carry boat traffic between the rivers Mersey and Severn. The proposal would create a link between the Port of Liverpool and the mineral industries in north east Wales and the manufacturing centres in the West Midlands. However, the canal was never completed as intended because of its rising costs and failure to generate the expected commercial traffic.

Prees a village located in Shropshire, United Kingdom

Prees is a village and civil parish in north Shropshire, near the border between England and Wales. Its name is Celtic and means "brushwood".

Llangollen Canal canal in Wales and Shopshire, United Kingdom

The Llangollen Canal is a navigable canal crossing the border between England and Wales. The waterway links Llangollen in Denbighshire, north Wales, with Hurleston in south Cheshire, via the town of Ellesmere, Shropshire. The name, which was coined in the 1980s, is a modern designation for parts of the historic Ellesmere Canal and the Llangollen navigable feeder, both of which became part of the Shropshire Union Canals in 1846.

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Prees Branch Canal Nature Reserve is a Shropshire Wildlife Trust nature reserve in the civil parish of Whixall, Shropshire, England. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest due to the presence of rare pondweeds (Potamogeton), and also is the home of watervoles. Dragonflies and other invertebrates occur in the water, on the banks and in the air above. The reserve contains a number of uncommon plants and is visited by birds such as the kingfisher and waterfowl. Otters sometimes occur.

Wem Rural is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 59 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, three are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish consists of an area around the town of Wem, but not the town itself. It contains the villages of Aston, Coton, Quina Brook, and Tilley and smaller settlements, and is otherwise rural. Most of the listed buildings are houses and associated structures, cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings, a high proportion of which are timber framed or have a timber framed core. The other listed buildings include churches, items in a churchyard, a former manor house, a public house, four bridges, two lime kilns, and six mileposts. For the listed buildings within the town of Wem, see Listed buildings in Wem Urban.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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