Cruckton is a small village in

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, England (). Cruckton is situated approximately five miles from

Shrewsbury Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'S ...

town centre, off the B4386 road to

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. The postcode begins SY5. It is within the

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and the

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parliamentary constituency.

Village

In 1870–72,

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'' described Cruckton like this: "CRUCKTON, a chapelry, with a village, in Pontesbury parish, Salop; 3 miles WSW of Shrewsbury town and r ilway station. Post town, Shrewsbury. Real property, alue£4,981. Pop lation, 155. The property is divided among a few. Cruckton Hall is the seat of the Harrieses. The living is a p rpetual curacy, annexed to the second Pontesbury rectory, in the

diocese of Hereford The Diocese of Hereford is a Church of England diocese based in Hereford, covering Herefordshire, southern Shropshire and a few parishes within Worcestershire in England, and a few parishes within Powys and Monmouthshire in Wales. The cathedral ...

. The church is good." The village has a crescent of council-built houses, called Church Close (originally Rural Cottages). They were built in 1949, close to St Thomas' Church. The latter was built (with Edward Haycock as architect) as a daughter church to the then parish church at

in 1840 and closed by 1985, since when it has been a private home called Church House. At the time of the crescent's building the site of a Roman villa was found on the green. Cruckton's publicly funded Cruckton Hall School, opened in 1978, is for boys with special needs or behavioural challenges associated with

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s, including

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and

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.Cruckton Hall School
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Notable people

Sir Thomas Harries, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Harries or Harris, 1st Baronet (1550 - 18 February 1628) was an English lawyer. Harries was born in 1550, the eldest of four sons of John Harries, of Cruckton in Shropshire. His mother was Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Prowde of Sutto ...

(1550-1628), lawyer, was son of a Cruckton landed family. * Sir Richard Jenkins, Chairman of the

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and M.P. for

1837–41, was born at Cruckton, on 18 February 1785. *Civil engineer Sir William Francis lives at Cruckton.Home address given.

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Cruckton Hall School
Villages in Shropshire {{Shropshire-geo-stub

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