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Cruckton
Location within Shropshire
OS grid reference SJ430103
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SHREWSBURY
Postcode district SY5
Dialling code 01743
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52°41′13″N2°50′38″W / 52.687°N 2.844°W / 52.687; -2.844

Cruckton is a small village in Shropshire, England (grid reference SJ430103 ). Cruckton is situated approximately five miles from Shrewsbury town centre, off the B4386 road to Montgomery, Powys. The postcode begins SY5. It is within the civil parish of Pontesbury and the Shrewsbury and Atcham parliamentary constituency.

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In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cruckton like this:

"CRUCKTON, a chapelry, with a village, in Pontesbury parish, Salop; 3 miles WSW of Shrewsbury town and r[ailway]. station. Post town, Shrewsbury. Real property,[value] £4,981. Pop[ulation]., 155. The property is divided among a few. Cruckton Hall is the seat of the Harrieses. The living is a p[erpetual]. curacy, annexed to the second Pontesbury rectory, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is good."

The village has a crescent of council-built houses, called Church Close (originally Rural Cottages). They were built in 1949, [1] close to St Thomas' Church. The latter was built (with Edward Haycock as architect) as a daughter church to the then parish church at Pontesbury in 1840 and closed by 1985, since when it has been a private home [2] called Church House. At the time of the crescent's building the site of a Roman villa was found on the green. [1]

The publicly-funded Cruckton Hall School, opened in 1978, was a specialist boarding school for boys with special needs or behavioural challenges associated with autism spectrum disorders, including autism and Asperger syndrome. It closed in the late 2010's, amid allegations of serious abuse. It is now the Headquarters of the New Reflexions group, a specialist-school organisation, providing for children who have emotional behavioural difficulties. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gaydon, A.T., ed. (1968). Victoria County History, Volume VIII. University of London Institute of Historical Research. p. 260.
  2. ↑ Whiteside, Robert (2006). The Churches and Chapels of Pontesbury Parish. funded by Local Heritage Initiative. pp. 63–64.
  3. ↑ https://newreflexions.co.uk/
  4. ↑ "Harris, Thomas II (1550-1628), of Lincoln's Inn, London; later of Tonge Castle, Salop". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  5. ↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jenkins, Richard"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  6. ↑ Who's Who 2015. A and C Black. p. 801. ISBN   978-1-4081-8120-1.Home address given.



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