Almington is a small village in

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...

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. It is about east-northeast of

Market Drayton Market Drayton is a market town and civil parish on the banks of the River Tern in Shropshire (district), Shropshire, England. It is close to the Cheshire and Staffordshire borders. It is located between the towns of Whitchurch, Shropshire, Wh ...

by road, to the northwest of the villages of

Hales Hales is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Hales is located south-east of Loddon and south-east of Norwich. History Hales' name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for nooks of land. In ...

and west of

Blore Heath The Battle of Blore Heath took place during the English Wars of the Roses on 23 September 1459, at Blore Heath, Staffordshire. Blore Heath is a sparsely populated area of farmland two miles east of the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, and ...

. Historically the manor and Almington Hall belonged to the Pandulf family, and much later, the Broughton family.

History

Almington, also referred to as "Almentone", was mentioned in the

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 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

of 1086, when it belonged to the Pantulf family. It is described as containing "3 hides "with appendages,” land for 6 ploughs, two acres of meadow and a wood two leagues long and one league wide (six miles by three miles)". The manor of Almington was larger than William Pandulf's Creswell, Derrington and

Moddershall Moddershall is a small village in the borough of Stafford (borough), Stafford in the county of Staffordshire, England, part of the civil parish of Stone Rural and ecclesiastical parish of Oulton, Stone Rural, Oulton with Moddershall. Lying to the ...

manors. Almington historically belonged to the Staffordshire part of the parish of

, once known as "Drayton in Hales", in the Hundred of Pirehill, along with the hamlets of

and

Tyrley Tyrley was a small settlement in Staffordshire, England (now in Shropshire), now lost, and a former civil parish. It was located immediately south of Market Drayton. The name means "clearing by the River Tern" It was mentioned in the Domesday B ...

. In 1811, Samuel Lewis stated that the township of Almington had a population of 340 people. In 1834, Peter Stray Broughton was stated to be the owner and lord of the manor of Almington, but Lieutenant-Colonel Dawes occupied Almington Hall. It remained in the Broughton family, and in 1913 it belonged to John Lambert Broughton who resided at Almington Hall.

Geography

Almington is about east-northeast of

by road, and west of the village of Loggerheads. It lies to the northwest of the villages of

and west of

. Pinfold Lane leads out of the village and connects Almington to the

A53 road The A53 is a primary route in the English Midlands, that runs from Buxton in Derbyshire to Shrewsbury in Shropshire. Route of Road The A53 begins in the centre of Buxton off the A6 road, before meeting the A515 road at a roundabout. Out of t ...

(Newcastle Road). The

River Tern The River Tern (also historically known as the Tearne) is a river in Shropshire, England. It rises north-east of Market Drayton in the north of the county. The source of the Tern is considered to be the lake in the grounds of Maer Hall, Staff ...

flows to the west of the village. Geological studies of the area have revealed that Almington has coarse sandstones, red or pinkish brown in colour, with few or no pebbles in places, though there is a gravel pit in the vicinity with many.

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