The River Corve is a minor river in
Shropshire
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, England. It is a tributary of the
River Teme
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which it joins in the town of
Ludlow
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, and which joins the
River Severn
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at
Powick
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near
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. The valley it flows through is known as the Corvedale (or Corve Dale), a term used as a general name for the area, and a name used for example by the primary school in
Diddlebury. It is sometimes (archaically) spelled "Corf", which is its pronunciation.
Course
It flows near
Corfton (which it gives its name to), then by
Culmington, then through
Stanton Lacy and then through the northwest outskirts of Ludlow before joining the Teme in an area of meadows just outside the town. It also gave its name to
Corfham Castle, near
Peaton. Corfham was the ''caput'' (the centre of medieval administration) for two Saxon
hundreds that encompassed the Corve Dale —
Patton and
Culvestan. They were merged into a single hundred (
Munslow
Munslow is a small village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is situated on the B4368, northeast of the town of Craven Arms, in the River Corve, Corvedale, at around above sea level.
The village formed part of and gave its name to t ...
) in the reign of
Henry I, however Culvestan continued to be a name used to describe the lower Corve valley for at least a century afterwards.
Pollution and floods
In 2006 as a result of pollution by slurry from a livestock farm in Brockton near
Stanton Long, fish were found dead in the river.
During heavy flooding in 2007 when the river rose in three hours, a house collapsed into the river and the
Burway Bridge collapsed severing the connection of the B4361 Coronation Avenue, a major access route, with the town centre of
Ludlow
Ludlow ( ) is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire (district), Shropshire, England. It is located south of Shrewsbury and north of Hereford, on the A49 road (Great Britain), A49 road which bypasses the town. The town is near the conf ...
. A new, modern bridge designed by the Shrewsbury office of the consultants Mouchel on behalf of
Shropshire County Council, and built by McPhillips (Wellington) Ltd, was completed in 2008. A temporary
Bailey bridge
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had been erected to reduce disruption in traffic flow during the construction.
Electoral wards
'Corvedale' is an
electoral division
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for electing one member to
Shropshire Council
Shropshire Council, known between 1980 and 2009 as Shropshire County Council and prior to 1980 as Salop County Council, is the Local government in England, local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Shropshire (district), Shropshire in t ...
. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 3,783.
It covers a large rural area, consisting of 13 civil parishes, and encompassing more than that of the familiar Corvedale area.
'Corve' is a
parish ward for electing two members to Ludlow Town Council, covering the northwest part of the town.
See also
*
Corvedale Three Castles Walk
References
External links
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Rivers of Shropshire
Ludlow
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