Plowden, Shropshire
Plowden | |
---|---|
![]() Topiary at Plowden | |
Location within Shropshire | |
OS grid reference | SO384875 |
Civil parish | |
Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | LYDBURY NORTH |
Postcode district | SY7 |
Dialling code | 01588 |
Police | West Mercia |
Fire | Shropshire |
Ambulance | West Midlands |
UK Parliament | |
Plowden is a hamlet in the parish of Lydbury North, Shropshire, England.[1] It is in the valley of the River Onny and lies 3 miles east of Bishop's Castle. Plowden was one of the stations on the Bishops Castle Railway, which closed in 1935.[2]
Plowden Hall is a grade II* listed building, being a timber-framed building dating in part from about 1300,[3] and is described in the novel John Inglesant by Joseph Henry Shorthouse, who drew the place as Lydiard.[4][5] Its owners, the Plowden family, remained Roman Catholics after the Reformation and there is a Roman Catholic church of St Walburga in Plowden.[6] When Edwin Plowden was awarded a life peerage in 1959 he took the title of Baron Plowden of Plowden in the county of Salop. GWR Hall class locomotive 4956 was named after the hall.
Thomas Falkner, Jesuit missionary and explorer in South America, spent his last years as chaplain at Plowden Hall until his death there in 1784.[7][8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "North Lydbury". GENUKI. Archived from the original on 16 March 2004. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ "History". Bishops Castle Railway Society. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1054564)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ Dickins, Gordon (1987). An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire. Shropshire Libraries. pp. 68, 107.
- ^ "Plowden". Literary Heritage: West Midlands. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ "Pastoral Spiritual and Practical Care to the Local Communities". The Diocese of Shrewsbury. Archived from the original on 21 April 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ Scott, Geoffrey. "Falkner, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9124. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Mee, Arthur (1939). The King's England: Shropshire. Hodder & Stoughton, London. p. 134. Mentioned under Lydbury North, in whose parish Plowden lay.