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The coat of arms of William Vardon of Goldstone Hall (1783–1856), lord of the manor of Goldstone, from his memorial inside St. Swithun's Church, Cheswardine. The heraldry of the shield is Or, Fretty Gules, illustrating the connection with the de Verdun/Verdon family of Alton, Staffordshire; the crest of a stag's head should have antlers, but these broke off many years ago
Rushbury is a civil parish in Shropshire, England.It contains 26 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England.Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
Cheswardine (/ tʃ ɛ z w ʊər d aɪ n / CHEZ-war-dyne) 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.
Albrighton Hall. Albrighton Hall near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, is a house which is Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List for England. [1] It was built in 1630 [2] for the Ireland family and remained in this family for the next five generations until 1804. It was then the home of several notable people until 1953.
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 , and tun (farm or enclosure); "the farm at the alder tree". [1]
Goldstone, Shropshire, a small village in Shropshire, England; Goldstone, California, a ghost town near the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex; Goldstone Lake, a dry lake in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California; Goldstone Catena, a valley on Mercury; Goldstone Gts Airport, private airport north of Barstow, California
Shropshire (/ ˈ ʃ r ɒ p ʃ ər,-ʃ ɪər /; abbreviated Salop [4]) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England, on the border with Wales.It is bordered by Cheshire to the north-east, Staffordshire to the east, Worcestershire to the south-east, Herefordshire to the south, and the Welsh principal areas of Powys and Wrexham to the west and north-west respectively.
Shropshire was established during the division of Saxon Mercia into shires in the 10th century. It is first mentioned in 1006. After the Norman Conquest it experienced significant development, following the granting of the principal estates of the county to eminent Normans, such as Roger De Montgomery and his son Robert de Bellême.