Cherrington is a village in Shropshire, England, in the civil parish of Tibberton and Cherrington. It was recorded as a

manor Manor may refer to: Land ownership *Manorialism or "manor system", the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of medieval Europe, notably England *Lord of the manor, the owner of an agreed area of land (or "manor") under manorialism *Man ...

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 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

, when it was held by Gerard de Tournai, and was stated to have been held by a man named Uliet in the time of

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, although it was recorded as "waste", in an uncultivated state, by the time Gerard took possession of it.Eyton, R. W. ''Antiquities of Shropshire'', v.VII, p.194 Its name is possibly derived from the

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personal name ''Ceorl'', or it may have originally been "Ceorranton" from the name ''Ceorra'' ("the settlement of Ceorra's people").Bowcock, E. W. ''Shropshire place names'', Wilding & Son, 1923, p.68 Cherrington is near to the larger village of Tibberton, to the east;

Waters Upton Waters Upton is a small village and civil parish in the Telford and Wrekin district, in the county of Shropshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 951. It was recorded in the Domesday book as "Uptone", when it w ...

is to the west and

Great Bolas Great Bolas (), or Bolas Magna, is a small village in rural Shropshire, England. It is situated north-west of the town of Newport, and about eight miles north of Telford. It is part of the civil parish of Waters Upton. It is situated at the con ...

to the north-west.

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is the nearest town. It contains several

half-timbered Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...

buildings including Cherrington Manor, which dates from 1635 and was probably built for a landowner and Member of Parliament, Sir Richard Leveson of Lilleshall (1598-1661). Cherrington Manor (or in some versions, the malt-house standing behind it) was popularly supposed to have been the building referenced in the

nursery rhyme A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes. From t ...

This Is the House That Jack Built "This Is the House That Jack Built" is a popular English nursery rhyme and cumulative tale. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20854. It is Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index type 2035. Lyrics This is perhaps the most common set of modern l ...

.Bailey, Brian J. ''Portrait of Shropshire'', R. Hale, 1981, p.61Auden, J. E. ''Shropshire'', Methuen, 1918, p.217 The story is, however, a purely local attribution with no particular evidence to back it up.

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