Coton is a village in
Shropshire
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. It lies near the road from
Whitchurch
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to
Wem
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* County Westmeath
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, about one mile southeast of
Hollinwood.
Coton Hall, once home to
Viscount Hill
Viscount Hill, of Hawkstone and of Hardwicke in the County of Salop, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1842 for General Rowland Hill. He had already been created Baron Hill, of Almaraz and of Hawkstone in the Co ...
, is an important English heritage site. In the early nineteenth century it belonged to Admiral George Bowen but it subsequently passed to the
Honyman baronets after Admiral Bowen's youngest daughter, Elizabeth Essex Bowen, married the Scottish baronet Sir Ord John Honyman. Their sons,
Sir George Honyman, 4th Baronet (1819–75) and the Rev. Sir William Macdonald Honyman (d. 1911) lived there in succession but they both died without issue and from the Rev. Sir William the estate passed to his niece, Elizabeth Hester Georgina Marie Ord Bearcroft, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Bearcroft (born Thomas Longcroft) of
Fitz
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and his wife, Mary Hester Lilly Rosalie Honyman, sister of Sir George and the Rev. Sir William. As a desirable young heiress, Elizabeth Bearcroft married Captain Robert Charles Dighton Wilson in 1891 and they adopted the additional surname of MacQueen in 1912 when Elizabeth inherited entailed estates in Scotland. The Wilson-MacQueens sold Coton Hall to the wealthy match manufacturer Sir
Alexander Maguire, who was living there by 1920 but sold the estate to
Viscount Hill
Viscount Hill, of Hawkstone and of Hardwicke in the County of Salop, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1842 for General Rowland Hill. He had already been created Baron Hill, of Almaraz and of Hawkstone in the Co ...
in 1924. The house has since been sold out of the Hill family.
The village has a Methodist Chapel, which contained in 2013 a war memorial marble plaque to congregation members who died serving in the
First World War
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. Since then the chapel has closed and in 2022 the managing trustees announced they would put the chapel for sale, its graveyard being closed to new unplanned burials but stipulating the graves and gravestones would not be removed.
[Report by Dominic Robertson.]
See also
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Listed buildings in Wem Rural
Wem Rural is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 59 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the thre ...
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Villages in Shropshire
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