Edgebold is a dispersed hamlet on the western edge of

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, England. It is on the A488 Shrewsbury to

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road.

History

It was described in 1897 as consisting chiefly of two farmhouses: Upper Edgebold and Lower Edgebold. Upper Edgebold is a grade II listed building, probably early seventeenth century with later additions, and moated to the north and west. Edgebold appears in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

as Edbaldinesham. This suggests the name of the original

Saxon The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ...

settler could have been 'Edbalding'; with 'ing' being a Saxon termina of descent, he may have been the son of an Edbald or Ethelbald. ''Thieves' Lane'', an ancient lane labelled on OS maps as a

Roman road Roman roads ( ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Em ...

, ran through this area. Sections remain as footpaths, farm tracks and hedge-lines between Mousecroft Lane on the outskirts of Shrewsbury, through Edgebold and out to where it joins the modern day B4386 Shrewsbury to Montgomery road at

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. There was formerly a

brick works A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale. Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock (the most common material from which bricks are made), often with a quarry for cl ...

at Edgebold, situated on the south side of the main road approximately 200m west from the junction with Nobold Lane. It appears as an active concern on the OS map of the early 1900s. Edgebold had a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

(named ''Edgebold'') on the now-disused

Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway The Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway was a railway running from Shrewsbury, England to Llanymynech, Wales, with a branch to Criggion. It was promoted by H. F. Stephens, Holman Fred Stephens, better known as Colonel Stephens, propriet ...

. The station was located on the south side of the bridge by which the line crossed the main road, between Lower Edgebold and Hanwood Bank. The same station had previously been open under the name ''Hanwood Road'', during the line's previous incarnation as the

Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway The Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway, (known informally as the 'Potts'), was a railway built between Shrewsbury, England, and quarry locations at Nantmawr and Criggion in Wales. It was initially opened in 1866; despite the extensive ...

. On the site of that station, in 1938, was built the Hanwood Dairy plant that prepared and bottled milk for delivery until it closed in February 1990. During the

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, two German landmines were dropped at Lower Edgebold on 20 November 1940.

Geography

Upper Edgebold and Lower Edgebold are now divided by the A5 Shrewsbury by-pass, which opened on 11 August 1992 and which is connected to the A488 by the ''Edgebold roundabout''. This roundabout underwent road widening in 2014; further alterations to the road layout were made shortly after to ease a congestion issue. After Edgebold, the next settlement out of Shrewsbury along the A488 is Hanwood Bank at the north end of

Hanwood Hanwood is a large village in Shropshire, England. It is located SW of Shrewsbury town centre, on the A488 road. The A5 road (Great Britain), A5 is only a mile away. The Cambrian Line runs through the village but there is no longer a Hanwood ...

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