Sambrook, Shropshire

Sambrook

St Luke's church, Sambrook
Sambrook
 Sambrook shown within Shropshire
OS grid referenceSJ712246
Civil parishChetwynd
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
List of places
UK
England
Shropshire

Coordinates: 52°49′05″N 2°25′34″W / 52.818°N 2.426°W / 52.818; -2.426

Sambrook is a small village in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, where it is part of the civil parish of Chetwynd, north of the town of Newport. To the north is the small hamlet of Ellerton, with Howle to the west and Pickstock to the south-east.

It was recorded as a manor in the Domesday book survey, when it was known as "Semembre"; the spellings "Sambroc" and "Sambrock" were later used: the name probably means "sand brook".[1]

In the village there is an early 18th-century manor house, Sambrook Manor, a public house, the Three Horseshoes, and a mill with a large millpond fed by the Goldstone and Waggs Brooks. The 19th-century village church, St Luke's, was designed by Benjamin Ferrey.[2]

There is another mill, the derelict but Grade II Listed 18th-century Showell Mill, a short distance to the south-east.[3]

The millpond, dam and sluice gate at Sambrook.

References

  1. Gelling and Foxall, The Place-names of Shropshire, part 1, English Place-name Society, 1990, p.257
  2. Pevsner and Newman, The Buildings of Shropshire, Yale University Press, 2006, p.496
  3. Showell Mill, Chetwynd, British Listed Buildings


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, January 10, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.