Yockleton is a village in
Shropshire
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, England.
Yockleton is west of the county town of
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury ( , ) is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire (district), Shropshire, England. It is sited on the River Severn, northwest of Wolverhampton, west of Telford, southeast of Wrexham and north of Hereford. At the 2021 United ...
, on the
B4386 road to
Montgomery and near the
River Severn
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. The population as taken at the
2011 census can be found under
Westbury.
Yockleton is near to
Ford (to its north) and Westbury (to its west), and lies in the Westbury
civil parish
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; the hamlets of Edge and Farley (both in
Pontesbury
Pontesbury ( ) is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, and is approximately eight miles southwest of Shrewsbury. In the 2011 census, the village had a population of 1,873 and the parish had a population of 3,227. The village of Minsterley ...
parish) lie due south of the village, and
Nox
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is to the east.
Amenities
There is one local pub, the Yockleton Arms (formerly the Pink Elephant), several miles west on the B4386, a 19th-century village church (
C of E
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History
"C ...
) dedicated to the
Holy Trinity
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, and a village hall, as well as an old people's home called Yockleton Grange in the old Vicarage. There is a
Motte and Bailey
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in a field not far from the church.
Previously Yockleton had a school, a garage, a
post office
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and a pub in the heart of the village. These have closed as the village has developed into a commuter village for Shrewsbury.
Previously served by
Yockleton railway station on the
Cambrian Line
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. The station closed in 1960.
[Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 444]
Notable people
*
Lily Chitty (1893-1979), archaeologist, lived at Yockleton when her father was Rector there between 1920-1938.
*General Sir
Geoffrey Musson (1910-2008), senior British Army officer, was born here.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Westbury, Shropshire
References
External links
Villages in Shropshire
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