Clunbury is a village and

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in south

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, England. It is near to the small town of Clun and the villages of Clunton,

Purslow Purslow is a hamlet in south Shropshire, England. It is located on the B4368 between the towns of Clun and Craven Arms, on a minor crossroads. Purslow gave its name to a hundred and there is a pub at the crossroads called the "Hundred House". ...

and Aston on Clun. In the village is the

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Church of St Swithin and a

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primary school. The village lies between 145m and 155m above

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. To the north the Clun and Kemp rivers flow, before meeting to the northeast. A lane runs up to the B4368 / B4385 crossroads at

Little Brampton Little Brampton is a hamlet in south Shropshire, England. It is located between Purslow and Aston on Clun, and is on the border of the civil parishes of Clunbury and Hopesay.Ordnance Survey mapping Little Brampton is situated on a notable cr ...

, and crosses these rivers by bridges.

History

The Domesday Book lists ''Cluneberie'' within the ancient

hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...

of Rinlau in 1086, one of many possessions of Picot de Say. From the 12th century through the 19th century, Clunbury was situated in Purslow hundred.

Church

The church is called St Swithun's Church.

Education

In November 2007, Clunbury Primary School was awarded the Becta ICT Excellence Award for its use of technology.

In culture

Ida Gandy Ida Caroline Gandy, née Hony (1885–1977), was an English social worker and author. She wrote children's books, plays, and books about rural life in Wiltshire and Shropshire. Life Ida Hony was born in 1885 in Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire, where ...

describes life in Clunbury in the 1930s in her book ''An idler on the Shropshire borders''.

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