Hordley

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Hordley is a small and rural village and civil parish in North Shropshire, Shropshire, England.

It lies a few miles south of Ellesmere.

Within the parish boundaries is another small village - Bagley.

Hordley is set down to mainly arable crops, with some dairy farming. Towards the Lower Hordley end of the village is the factory of ABP which prepares and packages beef. Towards the west, there are attractive views of many hills. The river Perry runs through it, joining the river Severn into Shrewsbury. It is generally a quiet, rural area.

Within reach of this village are many easyly acessable towns, these include ellesmere which is a 5 minute drive, oswestry which is about a 10 minute drive, or there is shrewsbury about a 20/25 minute drive.

Sadly there are no pubs or shops there, but on certain days there is a post office set up in the village hall.

It is usually taken that it is split into two parts, Upper and Lower Hordley. This is probably because of the long distance of road separating the two halfs with nothing but field either side. Within the upper part there is St. Marys Church which is still in regular use, surrounding this is a small area of grave yards. There is also a farm and some small clusters of housing. Within Lower Hordley is a larger quantity of housing and farms, the village hall is also located here.