West Felton

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West Felton
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St Michael's Church, West Felton
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West Felton
Location within Shropshire
Population1,475 (2011)
OS grid reference SJ345256
Civil parish
  • West Felton
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town OSWESTRY
Postcode district SY11
Dialling code 01691
Police West Mercia
Fire Shropshire
Ambulance West Midlands
UK Parliament
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Shropshire
52°49′26″N2°58′16″W / 52.824°N 2.971°W / 52.824; -2.971

West Felton is a village and civil parish near Oswestry in Shropshire, England. At the 2001 census the parish, which also includes the settlements of Rednal, Grimpo and Haughton, had a population of 1,380, [1] increasing to 1,475 at the 2011 Census. [2]

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History

The village originally grew around a Norman castle, whose motte lies next to the church. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Feltone, and as "Felton by le Knokyn" in 1303. [3] The name Felton probably represents a combination of Old English feld, "open land", and tun, "settlement". [3]

The old ecclesiastical parish of West Felton contained the townships of West Felton, Sutton, Rednal, Haughton, Tedsmore (the latter five originally part of the eleven townships forming the mediaeval manor of neighbouring Ruyton-XI-Towns), Woolston (now in Oswestry Rural), Sandford and Twyford. The modern civil parish has similar, though not identical, boundaries.

The parish church, which has a 12th-century nave, [4] is dedicated to St Michael, and has a chapel of ease at Haughton.

Notable people

See also

References

  1. West Felton CP, Office for National Statistics
  2. "Civil Parish population 2011" . Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  3. 1 2 Gelling, M. The Place-names of Shropshire: Vol I, the Major Names of Shropshire, English Place-Name Society, 1990, p.307
  4. Pevsner and Newman, Shropshire, Buildings of England Series, p.682
  5. "Dovaston, John Freeman Milward (1782–1854), naturalist and poet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7946.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. Wikisource-logo.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Fletcher, W. G. D. (1900). "Williams, John Bickerton". Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 61. pp. 431–432.
  7. "Kennedy, Benjamin Hall (KNDY822BH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  8. Francis, Peter (2013). Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance. YouCaxton Publications. pp. 166–168. ISBN   978-1-909644-11-3.
  9. Gimson, Andrew (2012). Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson. Simon & Schuster. pp. 85–86.
  10. Purnell, Sonia (2011). Just Boris: Boris Johnson - The Irresistible Rise of a Political Celebrity. Aurora Press, London. pp.  92–94. ISBN   978-1-84513-665-9.
  11. Burton, Humphrey. "William Mostyn-Owen obituary". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 September 2016.