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, 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 below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
of
Tibberton and Cherrington
Tibberton and Cherrington is a parish in the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England.
It consists of the villages of Tibberton and Cherrington. The population was 684 at the 2001 census.manor 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 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
Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor ; la, Eduardus Confessor , ; ( 1003 – 5 January 1066) was one of the last Anglo-Saxon English kings. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 to 1066.
Edward was the son of Æth ...
, 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
Old English
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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 to the north-west. Newport 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
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Lilleshall
Lilleshall is a village and civil parish in the county of Shropshire, England.
It lies between the towns of Telford and Newport, on the A518, in the Telford and Wrekin borough and the Wrekin constituency. There is one school in the centre of ...
(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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Listed buildings in Tibberton and Cherrington
Tibberton and Cherrington is a civil parish in the district of Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England. It contains 16 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, on ...