Tibberton and Cherrington

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Coordinates: 52°46′41″N2°29′13″W / 52.778°N 2.487°W / 52.778; -2.487 Tibberton and Cherrington is a parish in the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England.

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In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government, they are a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of ecclesiastical parishes which historically played a role in both civil and ecclesiastical administration; civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. The unit was devised and rolled out across England in the 1860s.

Telford and Wrekin is a unitary district with borough status in the West Midlands region of England. The district was created in 1974 as The Wrekin, then a non-metropolitan district of Shropshire. In 1998 the district became a unitary authority and was renamed Telford and Wrekin. It remains part of the Shropshire ceremonial county and shares institutions such as the Fire and Rescue Service and Community Health with the rest of Shropshire.

Cherrington is a village in Shropshire, England, in the civil parish of Tibberton and Cherrington. It was recorded as a manor in Domesday, when it was held by Gerard de Tournai, and was stated to have been held by a man named Uliet in the time of Edward the Confessor, although it was recorded as "waste", in an uncultivated state, by the time Gerard took possession of it.

Geography

The majority of the parish is made up of open agricultural land, with the areas in the south-west and south-east respectively known as the Cherrington and Tibberton Moors, being at the northern extremity of the area known as the Weald Moors. In the north the boundary is formed by the River Meese, while part of the southern boundary runs along the River Strine.

The Weald Moors are located in the ceremonial county of Shropshire north of Telford, stretching from north and west of the town of Newport towards Wellington, with the village of Kynnersley lying roughly at their centre.

The River Meese is a river in Shropshire, England. It is a tributary of the River Tern, itself a tributary of the River Severn.

The River Strine is a 3.4-mile-long (5.4 km) tributary of the River Tern flowing through the Telford and Wrekin district of Shropshire in England. The river drains the Weald Moors a fenland area north of Telford, and also takes runoff from Newport and Lilleshall. Tributaries of the Strine include the Pipe Strine, Red Strine, and Wall Brook.

A small area of the parish near Cherrington Manor is a near-exclave, being almost completely surrounded by the parish of Waters Upton.

Waters Upton is a small village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. The population of the Civil Parish at the 2011 Census was 951.

History

The civil parish was originally formed by a merger of Tibberton and Cherrington, two parishes of the pre-1974 Wellington Rural District. They had both originally been townships of the manor, and later parish, of Edgmond. The rivalry between the outlying townships of this parish was expressed in a local rhyme, recorded by Shropshire folklorist Charlotte Burne during the 19th century:

In England, a township is a local division or district of a large parish containing a village or small town usually having its own church. A township may or may not be coterminous with a chapelry, manor, or any other minor area of local administration.

Manorialism was an essential element of feudal society. It was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the Roman villa system of the Late Roman Empire, and was widely practiced in medieval western and parts of central Europe as well as China. It was slowly replaced by the advent of a money-based market economy and new forms of agrarian contract.

"Tibberton tawnies and Cherrington chats,

Edgement bulldogs and Adeney cats,

Edgement bulldogs made up in a pen,

Darna come out for Tibberton men"^[2]

Various versions of the rhyme - the version above was from Tibberton - were often used to tease the residents of neighbouring villages, or when couples from outlying townships were married in the parish church. People from Edgmond told her that "chats" meant "gossips", and a Tibberton resident explained that the residents of their village were known for their unusually dark complexions, hence "tawnies" ("this is true as regards the only family I had any particular knowledge of", remarked Burne).^[2]

Edgmond is a village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. The village population at the 2011 Census was 2,062. It lies 1 mile north-west of the town of Newport.

External links

Tibberton and Cherrington Parish Council website

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References

↑ Tibberton and Cherrington CP, ONS
1 2 Jackson, G. F. (ed.) Shropshire folk-lore: a sheaf of gleanings, Trubner, 1883, p.570

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[jackson_570-2] 1 2 Jackson, G. F. (ed.) Shropshire folk-lore: a sheaf of gleanings, Trubner, 1883, p.570

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