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Sutton upon Tern is a
Tyrley (Tirley) Castle was located North-East in the parish alongside the present day A529. "The castle built after the conquest by the Pantulfs" is believed to date back to 1066 and later rebuilt in stone in the thirteenth-century. The castle succeeded by a newly built Manor house in the 1280s which fell into disrepair, with an eighteenth-century farmhouse built upon the site to this day.
Sutton upon Tern was mentioned in the 1086 
Brownhill Wood and Salisbury Hill, located south of Market Drayton was the scene of the gathering of the
File:Map for Battle of Blore Heath by Ramsay.jpg, Sutton upon Turn's involvement in the Battle of Blore Heath
File:Population Groups for Sutton upon Tern (Parish).jpg, Adult life stage totals taken from the 2011 census for Sutton upon Tern, Shropshire.
File:Bridge over the Shropshire Union Canal - geograph.org.uk - 828021.jpg, Bridge number 58, carries a minor road over the Woodseaves cutting
File:Tyrley Wharf, Shropshire Union Canal - geograph.org.uk - 421764.jpg, The wharf is opposite Tyrley Top Lock
File:Through we go^ - geograph.org.uk - 273535.jpg, Tyrley Locks
File:The President at the top of Tyrley Locks - geograph.org.uk - 187414.jpg, A steam powered narrow boat waiting atop the Tyrley Locks
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Villages in Shropshire
Civil parishes in Shropshire
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...
in Shropshire, England. Expanded in 1914 after the abolition of the parish Drayton in Hales, Its name in Old English means 'South farm/settlement' on the River Tern. It is situated south of Market Drayton
Market Drayton is a market town and electoral ward in the north of Shropshire, England, close to the Cheshire and Staffordshire borders. It is on the River Tern, and was formerly known as "Drayton in Hales" (c. 1868) and earlier simply as "D ...
, on the River Tern
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.
About
In the 2011 census it had a population of 1,232, the majority of them between the ages of 35–55. A description of Sutton upon Tern was written in the early 1870s: :"SUTTON, a township in Drayton-in-Hales parish, Salop; 1 mile SSW of Market-Drayton. Pop lation, 177" It is unusual in that a small area of the parish, atTernhill
Tern Hill, also known as Ternhill, is a village in Shropshire, England, notable as the location of the former RAF Tern Hill station, which is now operated by the British Army as Clive Barracks. The settlement is named after the River Tern whi ...
, is almost an exclave
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of the parish (only a 5m wide strip of land joins it with the bulk of the parish).
Located north-west within the parish, is Service Family Accommodation for nearby Clive Barracks
Clive Barracks is a military installation at Ternhill in Shropshire in Western England.
History
The barracks were established, on the site of the former RAF Tern Hill airfield, in 1976: they were initially named Borneo Barracks before being rena ...
. The housing estates are not "behind the wire" and consist of two areas; Buntingsdale Park (mainly Officer's housing) and Buntingsdale Estate for other ranks. There is a local Primary School, Buntingsdale Primary School and pub nearby.
The parish also includes the hamlet
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of Woodseaves, in the east of the parish on the A529. Woodseaves is also the midpoint of the longest north–south axis of the UK. Other than a few houses there is a nearby public house, The Four Alls Inn, Garden centre and narrow gauge railway attraction.
Along the Western border of the parish runs the A41 that is built upon a Roman Road
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linking the fort of Mediolanum ( Whitchurch) to Pennocrucium (Stretton, Staffordshire).
History
Tyrley (Tirley) Castle was located North-East in the parish alongside the present day A529. "The castle built after the conquest by the Pantulfs" is believed to date back to 1066 and later rebuilt in stone in the thirteenth-century. The castle succeeded by a newly built Manor house in the 1280s which fell into disrepair, with an eighteenth-century farmhouse built upon the site to this day.
Sutton upon Tern was mentioned in the 1086 Domesday book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
where it resided in a district called 'Wrockwardine' under the ownership of Roger of Courseulles who was recorded as Tenant-in-chief. Sutton upon Tern was recorded as having 1 mill and 12 households, containing 9 villagers, 7 ploughlands, 9 smallholders, 2 plough teams and 1 lord's plough teams.
Brownhill Wood and Salisbury Hill, located south of Market Drayton was the scene of the gathering of the Earl of Salisbury
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Background
The title was first created for Patrick de S ...
's troops before the Battle of Blore Heath
The Battle of Blore Heath was a battle in the English Wars of the Roses. It was fought on 23 September 1459, at Blore Heath in Staffordshire. Blore Heath is a sparsely populated area of farmland, two miles east of the town of Market Drayton ...
in 1459 during the Wars of the Roses
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. An 18-hole golf course now occupies this site.
The first census entry for Sutton upon Tern was made in 1921 where it had a total population of 512. This figure began to grow and by 1961 the population had tripled in size to 1,622 people. This can be attributed to the introduction of the National Health Service
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in 1948 allowing widespread use of new antibiotics and the post-war National Food Policy. All contributing to the post war baby boom. The population total has since peaked and has been slowly declining as shown in the most recent census of 2011.
Places of interest
Buntingsdale Hall, an 18th-century grade II listed building is located in the parish. Woodseaves Cutting is a deep cut on theShropshire Union Canal
The Shropshire Union Canal, nicknamed the "Shroppie", is a navigable canal in England. The Llangollen and Montgomery canals are the modern names of branches of the Shropshire Union (SU) system and lie partially in Wales.
The canal lies in ...
, named after the nearby hamlet situated to the west of the canal. Completed in 1832 it is the longest cutting on any canal in Britain, it is about 2.7 km long and up to about 21.3m deep.
Tyrley Wharf, Built North of Woodseaves it served as a small dock above a system of 5 locks. In 1911 it was used to load milk churns to be taken from the Peatswood Estate to Cadbury
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's factory at Knighton.
Market Drayton Golf Club founded in 1906 is an 18-hole golf course.
See also
* Listed buildings in Sutton upon TernReferences
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