Sambrook is a small village in the ceremonial county of

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 ...

, where it is part of the

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of Chetwynd, north of the town of Newport. To the north is the small hamlet of Ellerton, with Howle to the west and Pickstock to the south-east. It was recorded as a manor in the

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survey, when it was known as "Semembre"; the spellings "Sambroc" and "Sambrock" were later used: the name probably means "sand brook".Gelling and Foxall, ''The Place-names of Shropshire, part 1'', English Place-name Society, 1990, p.257 In the village there is an early 18th-century

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, Sambrook Manor, a

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, the ''Three Horseshoes'', and a

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with a large

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fed by the Goldstone and Waggs Brooks. The 19th-century village church, St Luke's, was designed by

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.Pevsner and Newman, ''The Buildings of Shropshire'', Yale University Press, 2006, p.496 There is another mill, the derelict but

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18th-century Showell Mill, a short distance to the south-east.Showell Mill, Chetwynd
British Listed Buildings

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