Chetwynd is a rural

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

just to the north of Newport,

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. Although the parish contains no substantial nucleated settlements it includes the

Chetwynd Park estate The Chetwynd Park estate lies in the small village of Chetwynd on the outskirts of the town of Newport, Shropshire, England. The estate is positioned in a gap north of Newport, where the road having crossed the marshland, clings to a steep slop ...

, in addition to Sambrook, Howle, Pickstock and a number of other small hamlets. The north-eastern boundary of the parish is formed by an old Roman road, now a country lane, while its eastern boundary runs along the Lonco Brook.Chetwynd CP
ONS The parish church, dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels, was built in 1865 to the designs of

Benjamin Ferrey Benjamin Ferrey List of Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London, FSA Royal Institute of British Architects, FRIBA (1 April 1810 – 22 August 1880) was an English architect who worked mostly in the Gothic revival architecture, Gothic Re ...

and contains a fine East windo

depicting "Christ adored by the hosts of Heaven", designed by Hardman & Co., John Hardman in 1881. The chancel windows, one of which is a war memorial to parish dead of

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

and designed by Dunstan Powell, are also by Hardman, while the windows in the nave were designed by

Francis Skeat Francis Walter Skeat (3 December 1909 – 31 August 2000) was an English glass painter who created over 400 stained glass windows in churches and cathedrals, both in England and overseas. Skeat was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow ...

in 1963. An F1/T2 tornado formed within the civil parish on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day. The tornado later moved over Newport, causing some damage there. The former

RAF Chetwynd Royal Air Force Chetwynd or more simply RAF Chetwynd is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located in Chetwynd, Shropshire, England. The following units were here at some point: * No. 5 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF * No. 5 Servi ...

is nearby.

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External links

Church website
Civil parishes in Shropshire Telford and Wrekin {{Shropshire-geo-stub

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