Leaton is a small village in
Shropshire, England.
It is situated on the B5067,
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 ...
to
Baschurch
Baschurch is a large village and civil parish in Shropshire, England.
It lies in North Shropshire, north-west of Shrewsbury. The village has a population of 2,503 as of the 2011 census. The village has strong links to Shrewsbury to the south-e ...
road, in the
parish of
Pimhill.
The village has an impressive church, the Holy Trinity. This was built in 1859, with the tower added in 1872, by Shrewsbury architect
Samuel Pountney Smith. The churchyard contains the
war graves of a
King's Shropshire Light Infantry soldier of
World War I and a
RAF officer of
World War II.
The
Shrewsbury to Chester Line runs through, though the nearest railway station is at
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 ...
, as the former
Leaton railway station
Leaton railway station was a minor station located about six miles north of Shrewsbury on the GWR's Paddington to Birkenhead main line. Today this is part of the Shrewsbury to Chester line. It was at the top of the long climb up Hencote bank o ...
closed to passengers in 1960. The
signal box
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went in 1988, but today there remains a
level crossing. A small industrial estate now exists at the former railway sidings.
There once existed the Leaton Brick and Pipe Works, one of a number of clay-based industries in the area.
North of the village on the main road junction with the road to
Montford Bridge is a war memorial cross on a nonagonal plinth listing local men who died serving in the
First World War and those who served and returned from the war.
Just to the south of Leaton is the hamlet of
Dunnsheath
Dunnsheath is a hamlet in Shropshire, England. It is sometimes spelt as "Dunn's Heath"."Shropshire Place Names", A Poulton-Smith, 2009, p 79
It is situated on the B5067, Shrewsbury to Baschurch road, in the parish of Pimhill. Just to the north i ...
.
See also
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Listed buildings in Pimhill
Pimhill is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 67 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, twelve are at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade&n ...
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Villages in Shropshire
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