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Cressage
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Cressage is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is located north-west of the nearest town Much Wenlock and south-east of Shrewsbury. It lies the junction of the A458 and B4380 roads; the River Severn flows around its northern boundary. The parish council is combined with the neighbouring parish of Sheinton. The village's population at the 2021 United Kingdom census was 730.
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Place details
- Locality
- Cressage
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 707
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.civil_parish
- Cressage
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Cressage
- UK place.label_position
- bottom
- UK place.population
- 707
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.unitary_england
- Shropshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Shropshire
- UK place.region
- West Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Shrewsbury and Atcham
- UK place.post_town
- SHREWSBURY
- UK place.postcode_district
- SY5
- UK place.postcode_area
- SY
- UK place.dial_code
- 01952
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SJ590041
- UK place.static_image_name
- "Lady Oak" - geograph.org.uk - 288259.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The Lady Oak at Cressage
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Cressage is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is located north-west of the nearest town Much Wenlock and south-east of Shrewsbury. It lies the junction of the A458 and B4380 roads; the River Severn flows around its northern boundary. The parish council is combined with the neighbouring parish of Sheinton. The village's population at the 2021 United Kingdom census was 730.
==History== The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book under the name Christesache. The meaning is "Christ's Oak", and this over time has been corrupted to form the word "Cressage". The oak tree was part of a forest (which no longer exists), and a cutting from it was planted near the village in 1616. This was later relocated due to railway construction.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cressage” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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