Cwm Head is a
hamlet in
Shropshire, England. The name is part-
Welsh
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* Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peopl ...
, part-English and means "Head of the Valley".
It is located in the
parish of
Wistanstow
Wistanstow is a village and parish in Shropshire, England. Wistanstow is located about south of Church Stretton and north of Ludlow. It is about north of Craven Arms. It is just off the main Shrewsbury-Hereford road, the A49. The large pa ...
and on the B4370 road, southwest of
Marshbrook and the
A49 road. From Cwm Head, the B4370 heads downhill both towards Marshbrook and in the other direction towards
Horderley and the
A489
The A489, officially known as the Newtown to Machynlleth Trunk Road in Wales, is a trunk road in the United Kingdom running from Craven Arms, Shropshire to Machynlleth, Powys and crossing the Wales-England border.
The road starts about one ...
.
There is a
Church of England parish church at Cwm Head - "St Michael and All Angels". It was built in 1845 to a neo-Norman design by H. C. Whitling and is built largely of stone.
[''A Guide to Shropshire'' (Third Edition), 2005, Raven, p. 68]
To the northwest is the hamlet of
Hamperley while to the northeast (towards Marshbrook) is the hamlet of
Whittingslow.
The hamlet lies between 226m and 232m
above sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''.
The comb ...
.
References
Hamlets in Shropshire
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