Plowden, Shropshire

Plowden
Plowden
	Topiary at Plowden
	Plowden Location within Shropshire
OS grid reference	SO384875
Civil parish	Lydbury North;
Unitary authority	Shropshire;
Ceremonial county	Shropshire;
Region	West Midlands;
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	Ludlow;
	List of places UK England Shropshire 52°28′59″N 2°54′47″W / 52.483°N 2.913°W

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.

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.

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