Asterley
Coordinates: 52°39′25″N 2°55′34″W / 52.657°N 2.926°W
Asterley is a village in Shropshire, England. Its name, derived from Old English, means "the eastern clearing in the forest".[1]
It was historically a township of the large parish of Pontesbury,[2] and is still part of the civil parish of Pontesbury. It consists of some 50 houses, including some timber- and cruck-framed dwellings.[3]
There is a brick former Church of England mission church in the village, built in 1869 but a private house since about 1990,.[4] Its churchyard contains the graves of two World War II soldiers who both died in 1940, which are registered and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.[5]
There is a functioning Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1834.[1] A stone World War I memorial tablet is next to its entrance door outside and indoors is a framed Roll of Honour to local men who died in World War II.[6] The village had a small and possibly shortlived Latter Day Saints congregation in 1851.[7]
The village has had two pubs, The Royal Oak and The Windmill Inn, a shop and a school house which are all now private houses.
In the 18th and 19th centuries the village was the centre of a small-scale coal mining and brick-making industry.[3]
Outside the village is a rare survival, a windmill built in 1809.[8] It was restored in the 1980s.
References
- 1 2 Raven, M. A Guide to Shropshire, 2005, p.16
- ↑ Pontesbury Archived March 23, 2005, at the Wayback Machine., GENUKI
- 1 2 Martinali (compiler), Richard. Pontesbury Parish 2012, Celebrating life in our parish in Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee Year. Pontesbury 2012 Guide Committee. p. 9.
- ↑ Whiteside, John (2006). The Churches and Chapels of Pontesbury Parish. funded by Local Heritage initiative. p. 71.
- ↑ CWGC Cemetery Report. Dates obtained from casualty record.
- ↑ Francis, Peter (2013). Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance. YouCaxton Publications. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-909644-11-3.
- ↑ Gaydon & Lawson, A.T & J.B. (1982). A History of Pontesbury. Shropshire Libraries. p. 292. ISBN 0-903802-23-6.Reprinted extract from Victoria History of Shropshire, Volume VIII, published 1968.
- ↑ Asterley, National Mills Weekend
External links
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