Cherrington is a village in
Shropshire
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, England, in the
civil parish
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of
Tibberton and Cherrington. It was recorded as a
manor in
Domesday
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, when it was held by Gerard de Tournai, and was stated to have been held by a man named Uliet in the time of
Edward the Confessor, although it was recorded as "waste", in an uncultivated state, by the time Gerard took possession of it.
[Eyton, R. W. ''Antiquities of Shropshire'', v.VII, p.194]
Its name is possibly derived from the
Old English personal name ''Ceorl'', or it may have originally been "Ceorranton" from the name ''Ceorra'' ("the settlement of Ceorra's people").
[Bowcock, E. W. ''Shropshire place names'', Wilding & Son, 1923, p.68]
Cherrington is near to the larger village of
Tibberton, to the east;
Waters Upton is to the west and
Great Bolas
Great Bolas (), or Bolas Magna, is a small village in rural Shropshire, England. It is situated north-west of the town of Newport, and about eight miles north of Telford. It is part of the civil parish of Waters Upton. It is situated at the con ...
to the north-west.
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is the nearest town. It contains several
half-timbered
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buildings including Cherrington Manor, which dates from 1635 and was probably built for a landowner and
Member of Parliament
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, Sir
Richard Leveson of
Lilleshall
Lilleshall is a village and civil parish in the county of Shropshire, England.
It lies between the towns of Telford and Newport, on the A518, in the Telford and Wrekin borough and the Wrekin constituency. There is one school in the centre of ...
(1598-1661).
Cherrington Manor (or in some versions, the malt-house standing behind it) was popularly supposed to have been the building referenced in the
nursery rhyme
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From ...
This Is the House That Jack Built
"This Is the House That Jack Built" is a popular English nursery rhyme and cumulative tale. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20854. It is Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index type 2035.
Lyrics
This is perhaps the most common set of modern lyr ...
.
[Bailey, Brian J. ''Portrait of Shropshire'', R. Hale, 1981, p.61][Auden, J. E. ''Shropshire'', Methuen, 1918, p.217] The story is, however, a purely local attribution with no particular evidence to back it up.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Tibberton and Cherrington
References
External links
Villages in Shropshire
Telford and Wrekin
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