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Pickstock

Coordinates: 52°48′14″N 2°24′22″W / 52.804°N 2.406°W / 52.804; -2.406
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Pickstock
Minor road through Pickstock, Shropshire
Pickstock is located in Shropshire
Pickstock
Pickstock
Location within Shropshire
OS grid referenceSJ726230
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNEWPORT
Postcode districtTF10
Dialling code01952
PoliceWest Mercia
FireShropshire
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UK
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Shropshire
52°48′14″N 2°24′22″W / 52.804°N 2.406°W / 52.804; -2.406

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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References

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  1. ^ "Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Pickstock". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  2. ^ Bowcock, E. W. Shropshire place names, Wilding & Son, 1923, p.182
  3. ^ Eyton, R. W. Antiquities of Shropshire v.9, 1859, p.125
  4. ^ Pickstock Cross, Newport History Society