Cherrington

Cherrington Manor.

Coordinates: 52°46′34″N 2°29′49″W / 52.776°N 2.497°W / 52.776; -2.497 Cherrington is a village in Shropshire, England, in the civil parish of Tibberton and Cherrington. It was recorded as a manor in Domesday, when it was held by Gerard de Tournai, and was stated to have been held by a man named Uliet in the time of Edward the Confessor, although it was recorded as "waste", in an uncultivated state, by the time Gerard took possession of it.^[1]

Its name is possibly derived from the Old English personal name Ceorl, or it may have originally been "Ceorranton" from the name Ceorra ("the settlement of Ceorra's people").^[2]

Cherrington is near to the larger village of Tibberton, to the east; Waters Upton is to the west and Great Bolas to the north-west. Newport is the nearest town. It contains several half-timbered buildings including Cherrington Manor, which dates from 1635 and was probably built for a rather obscure landowner and Member of Parliament, Sir Richard Leveson of Lilleshall (1598-1661).

Cherrington Manor (or in some versions, the malt-house standing behind it) was popularly supposed to have been the building referenced in the nursery rhyme This Is the House That Jack Built.^[3][4] The story is, however, a purely local attribution with no particular evidence to back it up.^[3]

References

1. ^ Eyton, R. W. Antiquities of Shropshire, v.VII, p.194
2. ^ Bowcock, E. W. Shropshire place names, Wilding & Son, 1923, p.68
3. ^ ^{a b} Bailey, Brian J. Portrait of Shropshire, R. Hale, 1981, p.61
4. ^ Auden, J. E. Shropshire, Methuen, 1918, p.217

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