Upton Magna

Upton Magna

Upton Magna is a village in Shropshire, England.

Magna is latin meaning "great". Therefore the translation of Upton Magna is "Great Upton".

There is a pub, the Corbet Arms, a church called St. Lucia's and a primary school of the same name as the church. A recent addition to the village is the Upton Magna business park, which contained a shop/cafe (now closed) and office space for small businesses.

Nearby are the villages of Uffington (which also has a Corbet Arms pub), Rodington, Withington and the wooded Haughmond Hill.

Upton Magna is also notable for containing the oldest cottage (that still stands to this day) in Britain and possibly Europe - Cruck Cottage - which is a thatch-roofed, timber framed cottage located near the church. Tests on the timber in the cottage showed it to come from 1269.


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