Harnage is a small village in the

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county of

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. It is located just SE of the village of

Cound Cound is a village and civil parish on the west bank of the River Severn in Shropshire, England. It is south east of Shrewsbury. Etymology Locally the village name is pronounced "COOnd" (rhymes with spooned or crooned) although those local r ...

, in whose civil parish it lies, and the nearest notable settlement is

Cressage Cressage is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is located north-west of the nearest town Much Wenlock and south-east of Shrewsbury. It lies the junction of the A458 road, A458 and B4380 roads; the ...

. Harnage is considered a hamlet, not a village, as it does not have a post office. One road runs through the hamlet, passing residences, Harnage Farm, and Harnage House, a 17th-century house built on the site of an older mansion, allegedly dating back to the 11th or 12th century. The land was owned in the 12th century by Richard de Harnage, the progenitor of the Harnage family in England and in the USA. The name derives from the old English and means "rocky edge", which describes the area's landscape. It is completely agricultural. At the NW end of the road running through Harnage is the village of Cound (pronounced ''Koond'') and at the other end is a junction at the foot of the hill, that runs into the place called Harnage Grange, a farm consortium, which, in ancient times pre-

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, used to be the home farm of

Buildwas Abbey Buildwas Abbey was a Cistercian (originally Congregation of Savigny, Savigniac) monastery located on the banks of the River Severn, at Buildwas in Shropshire, England - today about west of Ironbridge. Founded by the local bishop in 1135, it was ...

and

Wenlock Priory Wenlock Priory, or St Milburga's Priory, is a ruined 12th-century monastery, located in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, at . Roger de Montgomery re-founded the Priory as a Cluniac house between 1079 and 1082, on the site of an earlier 7th-century m ...

, a few miles away near the town of

Much Wenlock Much Wenlock is a market town and Civil parishes in England, parish in Shropshire, England; it is situated on the A458 road between Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth. Nearby, to the north-east, is the Ironbridge Gorge and Telford. The civil parish incl ...

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