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Plowden, Shropshire
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Plowden is a hamlet in the parish of Lydbury North, Shropshire, England.[1] It is in the valley of the River Onny and lies 3 miles east of Bishop's Castle. Plowden was one of the stations on the Bishops Castle Railway, which closed in 1935.[2]
Plowden | |
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![]() Topiary at Plowden | |
Location within Shropshire | |
OS grid reference | SO384875 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | LYDBURY NORTH |
Postcode district | SY7 |
Dialling code | 01588 |
Police | West Mercia |
Fire | Shropshire |
Ambulance | West Midlands |
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Plowden Hall is a grade II* listed building, being a timber-framed building dating in part from about 1300,[3] and is described in the novel John Inglesant by Joseph Henry Shorthouse, who drew the place as Lydiard.[4][5] Its owners, the Plowden family, remained Roman Catholics after the Reformation and there is a Roman Catholic church of St Walburga in Plowden.[6] When Edwin Plowden was awarded a life peerage in 1959 he took the title of Baron Plowden of Plowden in the county of Salop. GWR Hall class locomotive 4956 was named after the hall.