Sambrook, Shropshire

Sambrook
St Luke's church, Sambrook
Sambrook  Sambrook shown within Shropshire
OS grid reference	SJ712246
Civil parish	Chetwynd
Unitary authority	Telford and Wrekin
Ceremonial county	Shropshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWPORT
Postcode district	TF10
Dialling code	01952
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Shropshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
EU Parliament	West Midlands
UK Parliament	The Wrekin
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Coordinates: 52°49′05″N 2°25′34″W / 52.818°N 2.426°W

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