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Wrockwardine, Shropshire One Place Study

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Location: Wrockwardine, Shropshire, England, United Kingdommap
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Wrockwardine, Shropshire One Place Study

This profile is part of the Wrockwardine, Shropshire One Place Study.
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  • Wikidata: Item Q3876737, en:Wikipedia help.gif The Wikipedia page looks fairly accurate apart from the part about The Alms-Houses were built in 1986, by the bare hands of Alan Wedge which really made me laugh as I remember Alan Wedge who was old when I was a child at Wrockwardine School. I've no idea who added that to Wikipedia but Alan Wedge was certainly one of the villages characters of the past.
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Scope

This study will cover just the village of Wrockwardine rather than the Parish of Wrockwardine which covers a much larger area 55,392 hectares and has a population of almost 6,000 people.[1]

Wrockwardine village itself has a much smaller population and currently consists of approx 130 dwellings. Burcot and Tiddicross will be included in the study as both are just a short distance from the main village. Tiddicross was for some time the workhouse for the area and will be very interesting to research.[2] I will also include Orleton Hall[3] in the study as even now many of the buildings in the village still belong to this estate.

Geography

Continent: Europe
Sovereign State: United Kingdom
Country: England
County: Shropshire
GPS Coordinates: 52.70259588151763, -2.5542367405790407
Elevation: 117.0 m or 383.9 feet

History

Wrockwardine was a settlement in Domesday Book, in the hundred of Wrockwardine and the county of Shropshire. It had a recorded population of 27 households in 1086, putting it in the largest 40% of settlements recorded in Domesday.[4]

I aim to study the history of the older buildings in the village including: St. Peter's church, The Old Cottage, the Alms Houses, the Old Rectory, Wrockwardine Hall, both school buildings and the Village Hall.

Population

I will be extracting data from the census returns and putting together family trees for past residents.

What i'm currently working on...

  • Transcribing the 1911 census for the village - DONE
  • Adding the family groups and individuals to WikiTree.

I have to say that this has been fascinating, each family i've worked on so far has been interesting, whether ordinary working folk or from aristocratic roots they each have their own story to tell. See the profiles i've added so far 1911 Census Wrockwardine OPS

Profiles included in this study

To see which profiles are tagged with the Wrockwardine OPS sticker so far see:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Wrockwardine%2C_Shropshire_One_Place_Study

Sources

  1. Wrockwardine Parish Council website https://www.wrockwardine.org.uk/community/wrockwardine-parish-council-15408/home/
  2. Tiddicross Workhouse, near Wrockwardine https://www.workhouses.org.uk/WellingtonSalop/
  3. See the Historic England entry about Orleton hall https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001132?section=official-list-entry
  4. Open Domesday website https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ6212/wrockwardine/




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Many thanks for this page. My grandfather Stanley Moss lived at Wrockwardine Wood House (a couple of miles from the village) as a child with his large family so I have some personal interest. Regards, David.
posted by David Moss
Thanks for your comment David and glad this is of interest to you.
posted by Yvonne Benting