Cheswardine
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Cheswardine ( ) is a rural village and civil parish in north east Shropshire, England. The village lies close to the border with Staffordshire and is about 8 miles north of Newport and 5 miles south east of Market Drayton. At the 2001 census, the parish (which also includes the villages of Chipnall and Soudley as well as several small hamlets such as Goldstone and Ellerton), had a population of 991 people, increasing to 1,076 at the 2011 Census.
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Place details
- Locality
- Cheswardine
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 716
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.civil_parish
- Cheswardine
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Cheswardine, Shropshire
- UK place.population
- 1,076
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 census)
- UK place.unitary_england
- Shropshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Shropshire
- UK place.region
- West Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- The Wrekin
- UK place.post_town
- MARKET DRAYTON
- UK place.postcode_district
- TF9
- UK place.postcode_area
- TF
- UK place.dial_code
- 01630
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SJ720299
- UK place.static_image_name
- Cheswardine High Street - geograph.org.uk - 1925725.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Cheswardine, High Street
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Shropshire
- Population
- 1076
- Image
- Cheswardine High Street - geograph.org.uk - 1925725.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01630
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- Commons category
- Cheswardine
- OS grid reference
- SJ720299
- postal code
- TF9
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- History and architecture
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Cheswardine ( ) is a rural village and civil parish in north east Shropshire, England. The village lies close to the border with Staffordshire and is about 8 miles north of Newport and 5 miles south east of Market Drayton. At the 2001 census, the parish (which also includes the villages of Chipnall and Soudley as well as several small hamlets such as Goldstone and Ellerton), had a population of 991 people, increasing to 1,076 at the 2011 Census.
== History and architecture == The name Cheswardine, recorded in 1086 as Ciseworde, in 1189 as Chesewordin and about 1650 as Cheswardyne, is probably derived from the Old English for "cheese-producing settlement".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cheswardine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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