Edgebold is a dispersed hamlet on the western edge of
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...
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 is on the
A488 Shrewsbury to
Bishop's Castle road.
History
It was described in 1897 as consisting chiefly of two farmhouses: Upper Edgebold and Lower Edgebold.
Upper Edgebold is a grade II listed building, probably early seventeenth century with later additions, and moated to the north and west.
Edgebold appears in the
Domesday Book
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 ...
as Edbaldinesham. This suggests the name of the original
Saxon
The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Seaxan, osx, Sahson, nds, Sassen, nl, Saksen) were a group of Germanic
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
settler could have been 'Edbalding'; with 'ing' being a Saxon termina of descent, he may have been the son of an Edbald or Ethelbald.
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''Thieves' Lane'', an ancient lane labelled on OS maps as a ]Roman road
Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Re ...
,Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway
The Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway was a railway running from Shrewsbury, England to Llanymynech, Wales, with a branch to Criggion. It was promoted by Holman Fred Stephens, better known as Colonel Stephens, proprietor of several ul ...
. The station was located on the south side of the bridge by which the line crossed the main road, between Lower Edgebold and Hanwood Bank.[ The same station had previously been open under the name ''Hanwood Road'', during the line's previous incarnation as the ]Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway
The Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway, (known informally as the 'Potts'), was a railway built between Shrewsbury, England, and quarry locations at Nantmawr and Criggion in Wales. It was initially opened in 1866; despite the extensive t ...
. On the site of that station, in 1938, was built the Hanwood Dairy plant that prepared and bottled milk for delivery until it closed in February 1990.Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, two German landmines were dropped at Lower Edgebold on 20 November 1940.[
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Geography
Upper Edgebold and Lower Edgebold are now divided by the A5 Shrewsbury by-pass, which opened on 11 August 1992 and which is connected to the A488 by the ''Edgebold roundabout''. This roundabout underwent road widening in 2014; further alterations to the road layout were made shortly after to ease a congestion issue.
See also
* Nobold
References
External links
Hamlets in Shropshire
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