High Ercall
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High Ercall (pronounced High Arcal) is a village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England.
It lies on the junction of the B5062 and B5063. There is a pub called the Cleveland Arms and a church.
The old manor house was a Royalist stronghold during the English Civil War and a battle took place at the village during the war. Time Team held a dig here. There are however no tourist facilities.
Just up the road is the WW2 airfield which was the home of 29MU, a maintenance unit and end of the line for a lot of aircraft in the early 1950s.
[edit] Civil parish
Ercall Magna is the civil parish covering the village of High Ercall and surrounding hamlets.
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