Plowden, Shropshire
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| OS grid reference | SO384875 |
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| 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 |
| EU Parliament | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Ludlow |
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Coordinates: 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.
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- ↑ "North Lydbury". GENUKI. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ↑ "History". Bishops Castle Railway Society. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ↑ Historic England. "Details from image database (257001)". Images of England.
- ↑ Dickins, Gordon (1987). An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire. Shropshire Libraries. pp. 68, 107.
- ↑ "Plowden". Literary Heritage: West Midlands. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ↑ "Pastoral Spiritual and Practical Care to the Local Communities". The Diocese of Shrewsbury. Retrieved 19 July 2010.