Pickstock
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Pickstock | |
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Location within Shropshire | |
OS grid reference | SJ726230 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | NEWPORT |
Postcode district | TF10 |
Dialling code | 01952 |
Police | West Mercia |
Fire | Shropshire |
Ambulance | West Midlands |
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Pickstock is a hamlet in the civil parish of Chetwynd, in the Telford and Wrekin district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is near the town of Newport. In 1870-72 the township had a population of 157.[1]
Its name is of Old English origin and may mean "Pices' stoc ("dependent settlement")".[2] Situated in an isolated rural area, it was an outlying township of the manor, and later parish, of Edgmond.[3]
Pickstock is south-east of the village of Sambrook and the River Meese (where there was once a watermill) runs nearby. The Pickstock Cross, the stump of an old preaching cross of unknown age, lies in a private garden in the village.[4]
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- ^ "Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Pickstock". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
- ^ Bowcock, E. W. Shropshire place names, Wilding & Son, 1923, p.182
- ^ Eyton, R. W. Antiquities of Shropshire v.9, 1859, p.125
- ^ Pickstock Cross, Newport History Society