Betchcott () is a hamlet near the villages of
Picklescott
Picklescott is a village in Shropshire, England.
It is located in the northern foothills of the Long Mynd, approximately 5 kilometres (3 miles) northwest of Church Stretton and 11 kilometres (7 miles) south of Shrewsbury.
Picklescott lies in th ...
and
Woolstaston
Woolstaston is a small village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, south of Shrewsbury and north of the nearest town, Church Stretton.
It is located in the northern foothills of the Long Mynd and is situated near Leebotwood, Smethcott and ...
in
Shropshire
Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to th ...
, England.
It lies in the
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...
of
Smethcott
Smethcott (sometimes Smethcote) is a civil parish and dispersed hamlet near the village of Picklescott, in Shropshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 254.
The name Smethcott has an Old English origin, and me ...
, in the northern foothills of the
Long Mynd
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. The nearest town is
Church Stretton
Church Stretton is a market town in Shropshire, England, south of Shrewsbury and north of Ludlow. The population in 2011 was 4,671. . The hamlet is made up of three farms, Upper Farm, Middle Farm and Batchcott Hall Farm, as well as Batchcott Hall and several other cottages.
Its name is derived from
Old English
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''bæce'' or ''bece'', "brook", referring to a cottage by a
brook
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*Brook+, an explicit data-parallel C compiler
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.
[Gelling & Foxall, ''The place-names of Shropshire: Part 2, The hundreds of Ford and Condover'', English Place-Name Society, 1995, p.182]
See also
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Listed buildings in Smethcott
Smethcott is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 21 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Gr ...
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Villages in Shropshire
Shrewsbury and Atcham
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