Moreton on Lugg is a village and

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, England. The city and county town of Hereford is approximately to the south; the

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and minster town of

Leominster Leominster ( ) is a market town in Herefordshire, England, at the confluence of the River Lugg and its tributary the River Kenwater. The town is north of Hereford and south of Ludlow in Shropshire. With a population of 11,700, Leominster i ...

to the north. The village lies between the A49 trunk road and the Welsh Marches

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line. At the 2001 Census, the population of the village was 952, which had decreased to 920 by the time of the 2011 Census. The settlement is mentioned in the ''

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'' as being in the

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of Cutestornes and having eight villagers and five slaves. The name derives from

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''Mōr-tūn'' (town by a fen), and its proximity to the

River Lugg The River Lugg ( cy, Afon Llugwy) rises near Llangynllo in Radnorshire, Wales. It flows through the border town of Presteigne and then through Herefordshire, England, where it meets its main tributary, the River Arrow, to the south of Leomi ...

. In Medieval times, the village was listed as ''Morton Juxta Logge''. In the 16th century the Lords of the Manor at Morton-upon-Lugg were the Perrott family. The village had a

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on the Welsh Marches Line that operated between December 1853 and June 1958. In the early days of railway operation, the railway station at Moreton was notable for having its ticket office inside a hollow

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tree with a

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of . The Church of St Andrew is a Grade II

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structure which was built around the 15th century and renovated in 1867. The church is in a joint benefice with the Church of St Peter at

Pipe and Lyde Pipe and Lyde is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. The parish includes the village of Pipe and Lyde and the hamlets of Lower Lyde and Upper Lyde. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 344. P ...

. On the other east of the River Lugg is Freens Court, investigated by the TV programme ''

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'' in 1999 as a possible site for the Saxon palace of King Offa. The dig confirmed the existence of a large

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d building but it was thought to date from the mediaeval period. An area north of the village around was used for many years by the

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for the storage of surplus materials, including the decorations from the July 1969

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of the

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. The internal railway at the RAOC site was used for training SAS troops to attack railway carriages. When the RAOC site closed in the early 2000s, it was bought by Greatwest Investments Limited for development into a business park.

References

Sources

Michael Raven, ''Guide to Herefordshire'', 1998,

External links

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Moreton-on-Lugg Parish Council
Retrieved 14 December 2020
Freens Court Investigation Record
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