Pave Lane

Pave Lane

Pave Lane
Pave Lane
 Pave Lane shown within Shropshire
OS grid referenceSJ759166
Civil parishChetwynd Aston and Woodcote
Unitary authorityTelford and Wrekin
Ceremonial countyShropshire
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town NEWPORT
Postcode district TF10
Dialling code 01952
Police West Mercia
Fire Shropshire
Ambulance West Midlands
EU Parliament West Midlands
UK ParliamentThe Wrekin
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Coordinates: 52°44′49″N 2°21′25″W / 52.747°N 2.357°W / 52.747; -2.357

Pave Lane is a hamlet in the Telford and Wrekin district of Shropshire, approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the centre of the market town of Newport, just outside the small village of Chetwynd Aston.[1]

There is a large public house in Pave Lane — "The Fox".[2]

History

A historic milepost on the former A41 road through Pave Lane.

Because of its location on a toll road between Newport and Wolverhampton, which became the A41, the area became the site of many inns and coach houses.

By 1767 it had become the site of a small lime works and brick works owned by local landlord Lord Gower, who made Pave Lane the terminus of Donnington Wood Canal. Limestone and coal was sold at the wharf at Pave Street and supplied the growing town of Newport with coal. The rise of railways and carriages meant the canal went into decline and the Pave Lane stretch of the canal closed in 1882; the canal has since been filled in.[3][4][5][6]

The A41 road no longer runs through Pave Lane, instead it now passes on a new alignment just to the east of Pave Lane and Chetwynd Aston.[1]

Notable people

Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, and his brother Piers Corbyn, the weather forecaster, lived from childhood at Pave Lane until after leaving school, in the former Yew Tree Guesthouse which their father had bought and converted to a family home.[7] It appears on Ordnance Survey maps today as Yew Tree Manor.[1]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Ordnance Survey mapping
  2. ↑ WhatPub.com (CAMRA) The Fox, Chetwynd Aston
  3. ↑ "Shropshire's History Advanced Search | Shropshire's History Advanced Search". search.shropshirehistory.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  4. ↑ "Shropshire's History Advanced Search | Shropshire's History Advanced Search". search.shropshirehistory.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  5. ↑ "Donnington Wood Canal". shropshirehistory.com. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  6. ↑ "Mining in Lilleshall". lilleshallresidents.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  7. ↑ Mendick, Robert (22 August 2015). "Jeremy Corbyn, the boy to the manor born". The Daily Telegraph (London).
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