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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, [ 1 ] increasing to ...
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
John Lewis (1855–1926), football referee and a founder of Blackburn Rovers F.C., was born at Market Drayton; Arthur Morris (born Market Drayton 1882–1945), professional footballer, played for Shrewsbury Town and Birmingham City. Harold Emerton Edge (born Market Drayton 1892 – 1944) an English cricketer, a right-handed batsman who bowled ...
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Pell Wall Hall. Pell Wall Hall is a neo-classical country house on the outskirts of Market Drayton in Shropshire.Faced in Grinshill sandstone, Pell Wall is the last completed domestic house designed by Sir John Soane and was constructed 1822–1828 [1] for local iron merchant Purney Sillitoe at a total cost of £20,976.
The Dillard Mill State Historic Site is a privately owned, state-administered property on Huzzah Creek in Crawford County, Missouri, that preserves a water-powered gristmill. [6] The 132-acre (53 ha) site has been operated as a state historic site by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources under a lease agreement with the L-A-D Foundation ...
The district includes one contributing site and three contributing structure related to the development and use of water power in Cedar County. It developed between about 1895 and 1943, and includes a grist mill site, dam, power house and double span Pratt with two pony truss approach spans bridge (1895). [2]
Mill Spring is located in a tributary valley on the northeast edge of the Black River floodplain. The community of Leeper is approximately one mile to the northwest along Missouri Route 49. [8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.44 square miles (1.14 km 2), all land. [9]