Cherrington
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Cherrington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Tibberton and Cherrington, in the Telford and Wrekin district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It was recorded as a manor in the Domesday Book, 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.[1] In 1961 the parish had a population of 122.[2]
Cherrington is near to the larger village of Tibberton, to the east; Waters Upton is to the west and Great Bolas to the north-west. Newport is the nearest town. It contains several half-timbered buildings including Cherrington Manor, which dates from 1635 and was probably built for a landowner and Member of Parliament, Sir Richard Leveson of Lilleshall (1598-1661).
History
Its name is possibly derived from the Old English personal name Ceorl, or it may have originally been "Ceorranton" from the name Ceorra ("the settlement of Ceorra's people").[3]
Cherrington Manor (or in some versions, the malt-house standing behind it) was popularly supposed to have been the building referenced in the nursery rhyme This Is the House That Jack Built.[4][5] The story is, however, a purely local attribution with no particular evidence to back it up.[4]
Cherrington was formerly a township in the parish of Edgmond,[6] from 1866 Cherrington was a civil parish in its own right,[7] on 1 April 1988 the parish was abolished and merged with Tibberton to form "Tibberton & Cherrington".[8]
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References
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- ↑ Eyton, R. W. Antiquities of Shropshire, v.VII, p.194
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- ↑ Bowcock, E. W. Shropshire place names, Wilding & Son, 1923, p.68
- ↑ a b Bailey, Brian J. Portrait of Shropshire, R. Hale, 1981, p.61
- ↑ Auden, J. E. Shropshire, Methuen, 1918, p.217
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