Plowden, Shropshire

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

  1. ↑ "North Lydbury". GENUKI. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  2. ↑ "History". Bishops Castle Railway Society. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  3. ↑ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (257001)". Images of England.
  4. ↑ Dickins, Gordon (1987). An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire. Shropshire Libraries. pp. 68, 107.
  5. ↑ "Plowden". Literary Heritage: West Midlands. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  6. ↑ "Pastoral Spiritual and Practical Care to the Local Communities". The Diocese of Shrewsbury. Retrieved 19 July 2010.

Coordinates: 52°28′55″N 2°54′25″W / 52.48194°N 2.90694°W