Knighton, Stafford

Shebdon is a hamlet in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is part of the parish of High Offley, a small village approximately 1.5 miles to the ENE. To the northwest is the hamlet of Knighton, to the north the small village of Adbaston and to the south the hamlet of Weston Jones. The Shropshire Union Canal passes through the hamlet, which gives its name to a number of features on this section of the canal, from west to east: the Shebdon aqueduct (between Knighton and Shebdon), the Wharf Inn (Shebdon) winding hole, the Shebdon embankment (through Shebdon), Shebdon bridge (number 44) and the lengthy Shebdon wharf. The public house situated by the canal near the aqueduct called the Wharf Inn closed in 2013.

Adbaston is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Staffordshire.

Tunstall is a hamlet near Eccleshall in the borough of Stafford in Staffordshire, England. In 1870–72 it had a population of 72. Tunstall was recorded in the Domesday Book as Tunestal.

Soudley is a small village in Shropshire in the civil parish of Cheswardine. The village had a pub called The Wheatsheaf until it was destroyed by fire. There is also a small disused Methodist chapel.

Royal Air Force Chetwynd or more simply RAF Chetwynd is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located in Chetwynd, Shropshire, England. The following units were here at some point: No. 5 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF No. 5 Service Flying Training School RAF No. 6 Flying Training School RAF Central Flying School Shropshire Gliding Club

Outlands is a hamlet in the English county of Staffordshire. It lies 1 km eas of Bishop's Offley.

Pickstock is a hamlet in the civil parish of Chetwynd, in the Telford and Wrekin district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is near the town of Newport. In 1870-72 the township had a population of 157. Its name is of Old English origin and may mean "Pices' stoc ("dependent settlement")". Situated in an isolated rural area, it was an outlying township of the manor, and later parish, of Edgmond. Pickstock is south-east of the village of Sambrook and the River Meese (where there was once a watermill) runs nearby. The Pickstock Cross, the stump of an old preaching cross of unknown age, lies in a private garden in the village.

Ellerton is a small hamlet in Shropshire, England. It lies in a rather isolated rural area several miles north of the town of Newport, close to the village of Sambrook, and is part of the civil parish of Cheswardine. Its name may be derived from the Old English alor (alder), and tun (farm or enclosure); "the farm at the alder tree". The hamlet is clustered around Ellerton Hall, an early 19th-century manor built on the site of an earlier house. Next to the road is a large millpond fed by the Goldstone Brook, with a derelict waterwheel. King Charles I was supposed to have drunk from a well here, later known as the King's Well. The well is still located by the side of a lane to the east of Ellerton hamlet, near the Kingswell Cottages.

Chetwynd Park is an 18th-century landscape garden with woodland, on the edge of Newport, Shropshire. The park can trace its history back to 1388, when it lay southeast of Chetwynd Park estate. The country house is now lost, but the medieval deer park survives as an agricultural showground, used for Newport Show and other events. The deer park was probably established early in the 18th century, and elements of the pleasure grounds in the 1860s. The country house was built on the banks of the 20-acre Chetwynd Pool, a small lake thought to have formed in the same way as nearby Aqualate Mere. In the 19th century, the park was filled with deciduous trees, including oak, beech, wych elm, horse chestnuts and Spanish chestnuts, and some crab apples. It was stocked with 115 Père David's deer. Before 1891, there was a great arboretum at Chetwynd, which provided cuttings to plant the new church's drive (Leach 1891, 367). J.C.B. Borough also added a strip of land east of the park and north of the Longford, and created a drive to run around the outer edge of that extension, leading from Chetwynd Park to a new lodge on the Longford. This lay opposite the north end of Park Pool. There were other lodges at the south end of the pool, and at the bottom of the drive to the park. The northern part of the park featured a stone icehouse, probably dating from the mid- to late 18th century. Animals that live around the pool are shoveler, wigeon and occasionally goosander. As well as the wildfowl on the pool other birds of interest include all three species of woodpecker, nuthatch, treecreeper, raven, and buzzard. The deer park is owned by the Newport and District Agricultural Society. As well as being the home of Newport Show, which is held on the second Saturday in July each year, there are a number of other events held there each year. In addition, the society has developed the educational potential of the deer park by building a classroom facility known as The Lodge in 2013 and as a result, many local schools and community groups as well as Harper Adams University visit the deer park for educational purposes.

Armsdale is a village in Staffordshire, England. Population details for the 2011 census can be found under Eccleshall.

Cheswardine () is a rural village and civil parish in north east Shropshire, England. The village lies close to the border with Staffordshire and is about 8 miles north of Newport and 5 miles south east of Market Drayton. At the 2001 Census, the parish (which also includes the villages of Chipnall and Soudley as well as several small hamlets such as Goldstone and Ellerton), had a population of 991 people, increasing to 1,076 at the 2011 Census.

The Chetwynd Park estate lies in the small village of Chetwynd on the outskirts of the town of Newport, Shropshire, England. The estate is positioned in a gap north of Newport, where the road having crossed the marshland, clings to a steep slope of the Scaur above the meadowlands of the River Meese, where it meets Lonco Brook, before widening out onto the north Shropshire plain. The estate can trace its long history back to the Domesday records, which record a mill and two fisheries. Chetwynd was an important manor in Saxon times and was held by Leofric, Earl of Mercia, about 1050 though the current building was built in 1964 after the demolition of the older building. In 1318 Sir John de Chetwynd was granted the right to hold a market and three-day fair on All Souls Day. (2 November). From the 15th to the later 18th century Chetwynd was held by the Pigotts, one of whom (Elizabeth Pigott, daughter of Thomas Pigott) married Peter Corbett the great nephew of Sir Rowland Hill, publisher of the Geneva Bible. Charles I is recorded as staying at the estate during the English Civil War, in 1645. Newport town has a ghost story a member of the Pigott family, namely Madam Pigott. The last of them, Robert, High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1774, sold the estate and moved to Geneva, later dying at Toulouse in 1794. The estate was then purchased by Thomas Borrow, member of a Derbyshire iron-founding family, who subsequently changed his name to Borough. Thomas, who moved to Chetwynd in 1803, was succeeded by his son John Charles Burton Borough, High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1844. In the 1860s there was a major building campaign carried out by J.C.B. Borough. Chetwynd Hall was reworked as Chetwynd Park, and at the same time the church and rectory which stood in the grounds (the church just beside the hall) were demolished and replaced by new structures 250 metres to the southwest. Terraced lawns were laid out on the site of the old church, new gardens were designed, and the park was enlarged. As the estate declined in the 20th century, Chetwynd Hall was demolished and replaced by a modern house in the 1960s. Next to the Hall lies the Church and a school house both built to replace earlier ones, respectively in 1865 and 1924. The school itself was moved from next to the hall to next to the gate house, to respect the privacy of the owners, and it covered Chetwynd and Sambrook from 1857 until 1959 when it became the village hall The grounds of the hall have been cut down over the years with a quarter going to become Newport original show ground. Following the purchase of the Deer Park by Newport and District Agricultural Society, the old show ground was leased to Newport (Salop) Rugby Union Football Club, with another two quarters became the modern show ground at Chetwynd park or Deer park which is sited on the banks of Chetwynd Pool, which is a 20-acre (81,000 m2) pool. The Deer Park got its name from the herd of some 100 fallow deer which were brought up from Southern England, and is set up much like a Medieval deer park. Following the death of the life tenant, Mrs M Borough, in 1987, the Estate was left to the University of Oxford and Charterhouse School and in 1988, the whole of the estate was sold, with the Deer Park being bought by Newport & District Agricultural Society, who run the Newport Show. The society set about the task of restoring the Park to its former glory and at the same time, creating what is acknowledged to be one of the most beautiful show grounds in the country. In addition, the society has developed the educational potential of the deer park by building a classroom facility known as The Lodge in 2013 and as a result, many local schools and community groups as well as Harper Adams University visit the deer park for educational purposes.