Middleton, Bitterley
Middleton is a small village in south Shropshire, England. It is located northeast of Ludlow town centre, on the B4364 road (which runs between Ludlow and Bridgnorth), in the Civil parishes in England, civil parish of Bitterley. The settlement existed at the time of the Domesday Book (1086) when it had a mill on the Ledwyche Brook. At the time it formed part of the hundred (county division), hundred of Culvestan, which merged into the new hundred of Munslow (hundred), Munslow in the early 12th century. For several hundred years it was known as Middleton ''Higford'' after its chief tenant Walter de Huggeford who had his main holding at Higford near Shifnal. Middleton has a Norman chapel, much renovated in the 1850s, with a Norman motte next to it. It is a grade II* listed building. Middleton Court nearby was built in 1864 by the Rouse-Boughton family of Downton Hall who owned most of the land around. Brook House, built in the late 1500s, is a timber-framed moated manor house ...
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Bitterley
Bitterley is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 802, increasing to 902 at the 2011 Census. The village is about east of Ludlow on the western slopes of Titterstone Clee Hill. Bitterley is the location for Bitterley Court about east of the modern village. Nearby to the east, is the small hamlet of Bedlam. History Bitterley is listed in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086 when it was known as ''Buterlei''. The ''fictional'' village of Bitterley in the Mary Webb novel ''The Golden Arrow'' (published 1916) was based on Habberley in the same county. In 2011, a metal detectorist discovered near Bitterley a hoard of silver and gold coins, the Bitterley Hoard, dating from the English Civil War. Church Church of St Mary, the village church dedicated to Saint Mary, is 12th/13th-century in date with 17th-century alterations.
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