Patshull is a former

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, now in the parish of Pattingham and Patshull, in the

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district, in the county of

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, England. It is 7 miles west of

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and 7½ miles east of

Bridgnorth Bridgnorth is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England. The River Severn splits it into High Town and Low Town, the upper town on the right bank and the lower on the left bank of the River Severn. The population at the United Kingd ...

. According to the 2011 census it had a population of 212. The parish consisted of Patshull, Burnhill Green and, along its eastern boundary, Westbeech (old name Westbach). It formerly contained several farmhouses and small cottages, but Burnhill Green is the main hamlet.

History

Patshull, which was anciently called Peccleshala, occupies a salient of

projecting into

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. Area 1,850 acres. The parish contains

Patshull Hall Patshull Hall is a substantial Georgian mansion house situated near Pattingham in Staffordshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building and by repute is one of the largest listed buildings in the county. History The Hall was built to designs ...

, which was set in a park of 341 acres.History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire by William White, pub. Sheffield, 1834. Page 272 The settlements are of small extent. The ground in the parish is level and generally

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. It contains two lakes, called Patshull and Snowdon Pools,National Gazetteer, Vol III, publ by Virtue & Co., London, 1868. Alphabetical article on Patshull. the latter, which has a serpentine shape, adorning the front of the mansion of Patshull Hall. In 1961, the civil parish had a population of 154. On 1 April 1986, the parish was abolished and merged with

Pattingham Pattingham is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Pattingham and Patshull, in the South Staffordshire district, in the county of Staffordshire, England, near the county boundary with Shropshire. Pattingham is seven miles we ...

to form "Pattingham and Patshull". The new parish of Pattingham and Patshull was divided into two parish wards of Patshull and Pattingham, each consisting of the area of the identically named parish as previously constituted. Patshull was only allocated 2 parish councillors out of 11 in total. The ecclesiastical parishes have likewise been amalgamated. Patshull Church, dedicated to St. Mary, was built by Sir John Astley around 1743, and is situated in the park.Historic England, "Church of St Mary, Pattingham and Patshull (1039330)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 4 February 2013

is a mid-18th century

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house whose estate was landscaped by

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, built by Astley around same time as the church. It was later the Staffordshire seat of the

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. A hotel is situated in the grounds of the Hall and features a golf course and trout fishing lakes. Both the hotel and the golf course are now closed to the public. The parish was in the South division of

Seisdon Hundred Seisdon is a hundred in the county of Staffordshire, England, located in the south-west of that county. It is named after Seisdon, a locality in the parish of Trysull and Seisdon. Etymology The name appears to mean "hill of the Saxons", deriv ...

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