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Shrawardine

Village in Shropshire, England

Summary

Village in Shropshire, England

Field	Value
country	England
static_image_name	St Mary The Virgin Church Shrawardine - geograph.org.uk - 1507853.jpg
static_image_caption	St Mary The Virgin Church, Shrawardine
coordinates
official_name	Shrawardine
civil_parish	Montford
civil_parish1	Alberbury with Cardeston (Little Shrawardine)
unitary_england	Shropshire
lieutenancy_england	Shropshire
region	West Midlands
constituency_westminster	Shrewsbury
post_town	SHREWSBURY
postcode_district	SY3
postcode_area	SY
dial_code	01743
os_grid_reference	SJ399153

Shrawardine is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Montford, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is 5.9 mi outside Shrewsbury. In 1931 the parish had a population of 176. On 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished and merged with Montford.

Etymology

Its name is locally pronounced Shray-den, and was often spelt "Shraydon" in old documents; it is otherwise pronounced Shray-war-dine. The placename originates from Old English worðign "enclosed settlement" combined with either scraef "cave" or screawa "shrew", the latter used as a byname for an individual.

Landmarks

The village's landmarks include Shrawardine Castle and St Mary's Church. The castle, known as Castell Isabella by the Anglo-Normans, was built in the reign of Henry I of England, and dismantled during the English Civil War in 1645. It had been held since 1644 by the Royalist commander Sir William Vaughan, whose aggressive tactics earned him the nickname "the Devil of Shrawardine".

Little Shrawardine

The River Severn passes to the west of the village. On the other side of the river is a hamlet called Little Shrawardine. It lies within the civil parish of Alberbury with Cardeston.

Notable residents

Henry Bromley (died 1615), Elizabethan and Jacobean politician, owned Shrawardine Castle where he died.{{Cite book |title = The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604–1629 |access-date=2014-04-03
Rev Dr Nevil Maskelyne FRS FRSE , the fifth Astronomer Royal, was Rector of the parish 1775 to 1782.
Jane Gray (stained glass artist), b.1931–d.2024, had a workshop in Shrawardine.

Transport

Shrawardine once had a railway station with a single platform, which finally closed in 1933.

References

Raven, M. ''A Guide to Shropshire'', 2005, p.178
"Population statistics Shrawardine AP/CP through time". [[A Vision of Britain through Time]].
"Relationships and changes Shrawardine AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time.
Vale, Edmund (1949) ''Shropshire'', London: Robert Hale, p.73
Gelling, M. (2006) ''The Place-names of Shropshire, Part Five: The hundreds of Pimhill and Bradford North'', EPNS, p.112
Mangianello, S. ''The concise encyclopedia of the revolutions and wars of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1639-1660'', Scarecrow, 2004, p.491
(July 2006). "Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002". The Royal Society of Edinburgh.
(25 March 2022). "Collection of stained glass up for auction". Shropshire Star.

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