Colebatch is a small village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in southwest

Shropshire Shropshire (; abbreviated SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West M ...

, England. The population of the Civil Parish as at the 2011 census was 210. The village lies on the A488, one mile south of

Bishop's Castle Bishop's Castle is a market town in the south west of Shropshire, England. According to the 2011 Census it had a population of 1,893. Bishop's Castle is east of the Wales–England border, about north-west of Ludlow and about south-west of ...

, on the road to

Clun Clun is a town in south west Shropshire, England, and the Shropshire Hills AONB, Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The 2011 United Kingdom census, census recorded 680 people living in the town.Combined populations for the t ...

. Also nearby, to the east, is the village of

Lydbury North Lydbury North ( ) is a village and a geographically large civil parishes in England, civil parish in south Shropshire, England. The population of the parish at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 695. The parish is locally called L ...

, while the hamlet of

Cefn Einion Cefn Einion is a dispersed hamlet in southwest Shropshire, England. It is located two miles southwest of the village of Colebatch, and lies between the small villages of Bryn and Mainstone. Cefn Einion in Welsh means Einion's Ridge; the nam ...

lies to the west. In the village, on the west side of a tributary of the River Kemp, are the earthwork remains of Colebatch Castle, a small

motte A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a walled courtyard, or Bailey (castle), bailey, surrounded by a protective Rampart (fortificati ...

castle. The village is named after the Colebatch family who owned the village and castle of Colebatch. Descendants include

John Colebatch Sir John Colbatch (baptised 1666 – 1729) was an English apothecary and physician. Beginning as an apprentice, rising through freeman to master apothecary in the Worcester Mercer's Company, he went to London in the early 1690s. Life Bringing pro ...

and

Hal Colebatch Sir Harry Pateshall Colebatch (29 March 1872 – 12 February 1953) was a long-serving figure in Western Australian politics. He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for nearly 20 years, the twelfth Premier of Western Aus ...

. The name was originally the

Norman Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 9th and 10th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norma ...

word ''d'Colebatche''.

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