Priestweston (or Priest Weston) is a small village in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

Chirbury with Brompton Chirbury () is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Chirbury with Brompton, in the Shropshire district, in west Shropshire, England. It is situated in the Vale of Montgomery, close to the Wales–England border ( at its nea ...

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, England, lying in the

Welsh Marches The Welsh Marches () is an imprecisely defined area along the border between England and Wales in the United Kingdom. The precise meaning of the term has varied at different periods. The English term Welsh March (in Medieval Latin ''Marchia W ...

. The village is located near to the

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border, at the foot of

Corndon Hill Corndon Hill () is a hill in Powys, Mid Wales, whose summit rises to height above mean sea level, above sea level. It has a topographic prominence of , so is listed as a List of Marilyns in the British Isles, Marilyn. It is surrounded on thre ...

. Due to a quirk of the border geography in the area of Corndon Hill, the nearest village in

Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ...

White Grit White Grit is a small, scattered village beneath Corndon Hill in Powys, Wales, directly on the border with (and partly in) Shropshire. The nearby village of Priest Weston, despite being in England, actually lies to the west of White Grit. To the ...

, lies to the east of Priestweston. Its name is based on the

Old English Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

for "western settlement (''tun'')", with the affix ''priest'' in reference to the estate of the Prior of

Chirbury Chirbury () is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Chirbury with Brompton, in the Shropshire district, in west Shropshire, England. It is situated in the Vale of Montgomery, close to the Wales–England border ( at its nea ...

at Weston Parva.Thorn, F. and Thorn, C. (eds.) ''Domesday Book: v.25, Shropshire'' Phillimore, 1986, p.1 It was mentioned in

Domesday 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 ...

, and later became part of the possessions of the Botterell family.

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winner

John Brunt Captain (British Army and Royal Marines), Captain John Henry Cound Brunt, (6 December 1922 – 10 December 1944) was an England, English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awa ...

was born there in 1922 and his family lived there before moving to near Whittington some six years later. An outdoor memorial plaque to his memory was put up in the village in May 2004. The village church at

Middleton-in-Chirbury Middleton is a scattered settlement in Shropshire with a chapel (Holy Trinity)A Churc ...

is located a mile from Priestweston. A megalithic stone circle known as

Mitchell's Fold Mitchell's Fold (sometimes called Medgel's Fold or Madges Pinfold) is a Bronze Age stone circle in southwest Shropshire, located near the small village of White Grit on dry heathland at the southwest end of Stapeley Hill in the Civil parishes i ...

is located within Shropshire on nearby Stapeley Hill, and there are also remains of a second circle, known as the Whetstones, a short distance to the east over the Welsh border in

Montgomeryshire Montgomeryshire ( ) was Historic counties of Wales, one of the thirteen counties of Wales that existed from 1536 until their abolishment in 1974. It was named after its county town, Montgomery, Powys, Montgomery, which in turn was named after ...

. There is also a traditional pub, ''The Miner's Arms''.

National Cycle Route 44 National Cycle Network Route 44, part of the National Cycle Network, is a 31.1 mile cycle route, connecting Shrewsbury, Shropshire with Cinderford, Gloucestershire. The part of the route from Shrewsbury to Bromfield, Shropshire, Bromfield is sign ...

passes through the village.Shropshire Council
National Cycle Route 44

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