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Bettws-y-Crwyn ( cy, Betws-y-crwyn / Betwsycrowyn) is a small, remote village and civil parish in south-west Shropshire, England. It is close to the England–Wales border and is one of a number of English villages to have a Welsh language placename.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names
' (third edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947), p.38. In this he has been followed by Margaret GellingMargaret Gelling in collaboration with H. D. G. Foxall, ''The place-names of Shropshire. Part 1, The major names of Shropshire'', English Place-Name Society, vol. 62–3 (1990), p.47. and the University of Nottingham's 'Key to English Place-names' project . The Welsh noun ''crowyn'' has a range of meanings, including 'shed where animals are kept, sty, coop, kennel; creel, basket'. The parish name was formerly written simply as ''Bettus'' or ''Bettws'', and the suffix ''Crwyn'' only appears in written records in the nineteenth century.
Office for National Statistics increasing to 239 at the 2011 census. It lies at above sea level, making it one of the highest settlements in Shropshire and England too. The village is about west of the Shropshire town of Craven Arms, and only about south-east of Newtown in Powys, Wales. Bettws had a school which closed in 1951; its building is now the village hall, containing a First World War memorial board. The parish lies within the Clun electoral division of Shropshire Council.
The church of St. Mary dates from the late 13th or early 14th century, and was "restored" in 1860. There is a fine 15th or 16th century screen and roof, a 17th-century pulpit, and 19th century pews, with the names of farms within the parish painted on them.St Mary, Bettwys-y-crwyn
British Listed Buildings The church contains a ceramic war memorial plaque to men who died serving in World War I. A pair of medals belonging to local man Pryce Lloyd, who returned from wartime service (during which he was a prisoner of war), used to be displayed under the plaque.
Bettws parish
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Name
The first part of the name of the village is theWelsh
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''bet(t)ws'', a borrowing from the Old English
Old English (, ), 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 was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
''bed-hus'', meaning 'prayer house' or 'chapel'. In Welsh, ''crwyn'' (the plural of ''croen'') usually means 'skins, hides, pelts'. Hence Betws-y-Crwyn appears at first to mean 'chapel of the hides'. However, Eilert Ekwall
Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall (born 8 January 1877 in Vallsjö (now in Sävsjö, Jönköpings län), Sweden, died 23 November 1964 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden), known as Eilert Ekwall, was Professor of English at Sweden's Lund University from 1909 to ...
suggested that the form that now appears as ''crwyn'' 'may be Welsh ''crowyn'' 'pigsty' '.Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names
' (third edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947), p.38. In this he has been followed by Margaret GellingMargaret Gelling in collaboration with H. D. G. Foxall, ''The place-names of Shropshire. Part 1, The major names of Shropshire'', English Place-Name Society, vol. 62–3 (1990), p.47. and the University of Nottingham's 'Key to English Place-names' project . The Welsh noun ''crowyn'' has a range of meanings, including 'shed where animals are kept, sty, coop, kennel; creel, basket'. The parish name was formerly written simply as ''Bettus'' or ''Bettws'', and the suffix ''Crwyn'' only appears in written records in the nineteenth century.
Features
The parish, including the hamlets of Anchor (which has a pub of the same name),Quabbs
Quabbs is a small, scattered hamlet in the southwest of Shropshire, near the border between England and Wales. The name, which also occurs in Gloucestershire as a field name, is possibly derived from the Old English word ''cwabba'', "marsh".Smith ...
and Hall of the Forest had a total population of 212 at the 2001 census,Bettws-y-Crwyn CPOffice for National Statistics increasing to 239 at the 2011 census. It lies at above sea level, making it one of the highest settlements in Shropshire and England too. The village is about west of the Shropshire town of Craven Arms, and only about south-east of Newtown in Powys, Wales. Bettws had a school which closed in 1951; its building is now the village hall, containing a First World War memorial board. The parish lies within the Clun electoral division of Shropshire Council.
Church
The church of St. Mary dates from the late 13th or early 14th century, and was "restored" in 1860. There is a fine 15th or 16th century screen and roof, a 17th-century pulpit, and 19th century pews, with the names of farms within the parish painted on them.St Mary, Bettwys-y-crwynBritish Listed Buildings The church contains a ceramic war memorial plaque to men who died serving in World War I. A pair of medals belonging to local man Pryce Lloyd, who returned from wartime service (during which he was a prisoner of war), used to be displayed under the plaque.
See also
*Listed buildings in Bettws-y-Crwyn
Bettws-y-Crwyn is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains six listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England
The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's official database of protected he ...
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Bettws parish
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