Edgmond

Edgmond
Edgmond
	; Edgmond from helicopter. The Wrekin on the horizon
	Edgmond Location within Shropshire
Population	2,062 (2011)
OS grid reference	SJ722194
Civil parish	Edgmond;
Unitary authority	Telford and Wrekin;
Ceremonial county	Shropshire;
Region	West Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWPORT
Postcode district	TF10
Dialling code	01952
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Shropshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	The Wrekin;

Edgmond is a village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. The village population at the 2011 Census was 2,062.[1] It lies 1 mile (1.6 kilometres) north-west of the town of Newport.

Harper Adams University is in Edgmond. The University has accommodation in the village, where many international students stay. The main subjects taught at the college are related to the food chain and much research is done there. Here on 10 January 1982 the English lowest temperature weather record was broken (and is kept to this day): −26.1 °C (−15.0 °F).[2]

The village has two pubs (the Lion and the Lamb), an Anglican parish church, a Methodist chapel and hall (neither of which are in use), a village hall Village Hall, and a village shop with a co-located post office.

There is a recreation field called simply "The Playing Fields", where there are Sunday cricket games, pub football matches, and a playground for young children. The village also has many areas for walking and biking including an area called the Rock Hole, an old sandstone quarry from which the rock used to build the local church was taken .

Also popular is the canal walk, which leads down to the local town of Newport along the old canals. The canals are now often used for fishing competitions. There has been much speculation about the possibility of reopening the old Shrewsbury and Newport Canal route.[3]

There is a church and school in Edgmond. The church is dedicated to St.Peter and is in the Archdeaconry of Salop and Diocese of Lichfield. The village Church of England primary school is called St.Peters.

The parish war memorial, on a roadside, erected to commemorate war dead of World War I, consists of a sandstone pillar surmounted by a crucifix with figures of a soldier and a nurse looking up at the figure of Christ.[4]

Notable people

Previous Rectors of Edgmond included Thomas Bucknall Lloyd (also concurrently Archdeacon of Salop) from 1888 to 1896, dying there,[5] and Sir Lovelace Stamer (also concurrently Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury), from 1896 to 1905, during which period he built new schools for local children, organised a working men's club and reading rooms, and paid for a piped water supply for the village.[6]

Customs

The church holds an annual Church Clipping service, which claims to be the longest uninterrupted clipping service in the country.[7]

Edgmond was once associated with the practice of souling, a possible contributor to the halloween practice of trick or treating. The folk song "The Edgmond Man's Souling Song" was released by folk musicians John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris on their 1976 album Among The Many Attractions at the Show will be a Really High Class Band.

Etymology

The name Edgmond comes from the Anglo-Saxon for edge of marsh; the hamlet of Edgmond Marsh lies north of the village at 52°46′55″N 02°25′05″W.

Transport

Bus

Services operating in the Edgmond area, as of 2014:

Number	Route	Operator	Days of operation
19	Newport - Edgmond	Arriva Midlands	Monday - Friday (excluding public holidays)
519	Newport - Shrewsbury	Arriva Midlands	Monday - Saturday

References

"Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 20 November 2015.
Williams, Nick (2017). "England's coldest day on record". Aries; the magazine of RAF Shawbury. No. 1. Rushden: Forces and Corporate Publishing Ltd. p. 11. OCLC 921875505.
"BBC - Shropshire - Features - Shrewsbury & Newport Canal". www.bbc.co.uk.
Francis, Peter (2013). Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance. YouCaxton Publications. p. 153. ISBN 978-1-909644-11-3.
"Death of Archdeacon Lloyd". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 28 February 1896. p. 6.
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Stamer, Lovelace Tomlinson" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 381.

External links

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Edgmond Wines - A popular wine store and wine club in Edgmond.

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[1] "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 20 November 2015.

[2] Williams, Nick (2017). "England's coldest day on record". Aries; the magazine of RAF Shawbury. No. 1. Rushden: Forces and Corporate Publishing Ltd. p. 11. OCLC 921875505.

[3] "BBC - Shropshire - Features - Shrewsbury & Newport Canal". www.bbc.co.uk.

[4] Francis, Peter (2013). Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance. YouCaxton Publications. p. 153. ISBN 978-1-909644-11-3.

[shrewchron-5] "Death of Archdeacon Lloyd". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 28 February 1896. p. 6.

[dnb-6] Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Stamer, Lovelace Tomlinson" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 381.