Howle, also spelt ''Howl'', is a small village in

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 ...

, England, in a rural area some five miles to the north-west of the town of

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. Although it is part of the

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of Chetwynd, the nearest village is

Child's Ercall Child's Ercall ( ) is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is located in a rural area between the small towns of Market Drayton and Newport: the civil parish had a total population of 599 at the 2001 census,

. The village name has been variously suggested as being derived from the Old English personal name element ''Hyge-''Bowcock, E. W. ''Shropshire place names'', Wilding & Son, 1923, pp.125-6 or from a word meaning "hill".Raven, M. ''A Guide to Shropshire'', 2005, p.96 In the ''

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'' survey it was recorded as the manor of ''Hugle''.Gelling and Foxall, ''The place-names of Shropshire, Volume 1'', EPNS, 1990, p.161 Howle is on the edge of Ercall Heath, which was largely forested until

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and has been partly brought into cultivation since; the River Meese flows nearby. There is a

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, formerly used by those seeking cures, south of Howle near the road to Tibberton.Raven, p.202

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