Cherrington

Human settlement in England

Tibberton and Cherrington

Unitary authority

Telford and Wrekin

Shropshire

Region

West Midlands

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The Wrekin

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52°46′34″N 2°29′49″W / 52.776°N 2.497°W / 52.776; -2.497

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 Domesday, 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]

References

^ Eyton, R. W. Antiquities of Shropshire, v.VII, p.194
^ "Population statistics Cherrington CP/Tn through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
^ 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
^ "History of Cherrington, in Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
^ "Relationships and changes Cherrington CP/Tn through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
^ "Wrekin Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 24 May 2023.