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1211:("Clive of India") (1725–1774), is believed to have been a tenant at Condover Hall when two of his daughters, Margaret ("Margaretta" in the registers) and Elizabeth were baptised at Condover Church respectively in 1763 and 1764. After the entry of Elizabeth's baptism, coinciding with Clive's last voyage to India, was written in the register a prayer verse: "An Aged Sire's longing Eyes to feast/And fill with Rapture his Clarinda's Breast/From Indostan unto his native shore/With Laurels crown'd may CLIVE as heretofore/Return, Thou King of Heaven, we implore." 52: 509: 34: 1835: 577:; and is good. The p. curacy of Dorrington is a separate benefice. Charities, £66. -The sub-district is in Atcham district; and contains fourteen parishes. Acres, 37,057. Pop., 6,063. Houses, 1,157. -The hundred includes most of the sub-district; extends considerably beyond it; and is cut into the divisions of Condover and Cound. Acres, 25,630 and 19,684. Pop. of the whole, 6,551. Houses, 1,261." 59: 612:, closing in June 1945. Many of the original buildings including the control tower still stand although most of the three concrete runways have been removed. RAF Condover now forms a major part of Berriewood Farm and Condover Industrial Estate. Condover Hall was commandeered as the station's officers' mess during the station's operational years. 464:, and the Norman manor house is believed to have stood on the site now occupied by Church House, a short distance north west of the Church. It would also appear that there was a mill on the Cound Brook in the village which produced a good annual income. At the time of the Domesday census, Condover was held by 1035:
The replacement nave dates from 1664 after the rebuilding of the crossing tower, which collapsed in 1660 also destroying the northern aisle. A master mason called John Orum cut his initials (reading apparently "I.O.") into the northern jamb of the double-chamfered tower arch in 1664. The three-stage
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since 1976. The more than forty listed structures in Condover range from six separate early cruck-framed buildings and many black-and-white timbered cottages to the 19th-century Old Vicarage and several funerary monuments in the churchyard. Of the early half-timbered houses, the most impressive are
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were discovered in 1986. The skeleton is one of the most complete mammoth skeletons ever to be found in the UK and has been dated at 14,000 years old, later than the animals had been previously thought to survive in Europe. There is a model of the Condover mammoth skeleton at the
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which provided the fertile soil that contributed to Condover becoming a successful farming community throughout medieval times. There are still several active geological fault lines underlying the area and on 2 April 1990 Condover experienced an earthquake, measuring 5.4 on the
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of Wales. Henry offered Condover to Llewelyn as a goodwill gesture, but sustained wars and skirmishes between England and Wales throughout the 13th century ensured that stable tenure of Condover manor and Hundred did not settle for nearly 300 years.
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of Condover Hall who also added the northern family chapel, which contains a range of monuments, earliest of which is the memorial (dated 1641), with kneeling figures, of Judge Owen, his son Sir Roger, daughter Jane Norton. and her husband
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In the 1801 census Condover's total population was 1,251. In 1901 it was 1,658 and by 1971 the population had fallen to 1,488. It was estimated as 1,972 for 2008, of which an estimated 659 lived in the village of Condover itself.
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Condover stands in the lee of an outcropping spur, consisting of a Pre-Cambrian limestone and sandstone sedimentary rock extension of the Longmyndian range, intruding into the Shropshire-Severn plain with major appearances at
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windows have keeled nook-shafts and waterleaf capitals, resting on a continuous string course. The church is built of finely grained local pink sandstone, quarried at Berriewood, with some recycled
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in Shropshire, the earliest from the 16th century. Most of these monuments and family tombs date from the 18th and 19th centuries. Many of the sculptures and monuments are
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as the residential Condover Hall School for the Blind until 2005. Sold to the private Priory Educational Group, the hall later became home to Condover Horizon School for
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The village of Condover is in a low-lying area, towards the southern end of the Shropshire-Severn plain. The gently undulating land in the vicinity is bisected by
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There are many small sand and gravel quarries located around the village, although the area is still very rural. In one of the many gravel bog sink holes near
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The parish contains two industrial estates, two sand and gravel quarries and a projected borough recycling plant is currently planned and under discussion.
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filmed a three-part documentary about the RNIB residential school at Condover Hall, and the children were filmed extensively in and around the village.
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of Condover, an administrative area that was large enough to sustain about 100 households. By the 11th century Condover was a royal manor of
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The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present
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There is no secondary school in the village; children over the age of eleven travel by bus to a range of secondary schools in nearby
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DSO DFC & Bar RAF (1919–1941), member of a Condover parish farming family, has a brass plaque to his memory in Condover Church.
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The parish, along with a number of others to its south, is part of the Burnell electoral division, which returns one councillor to
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The northern porch, south vestry together with battlements and buttresses to the nave were built during an 1878 restoration by
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accommodation huts at RAF Condover. Several of the POWs settled permanently in the Shrewsbury area and married local women.
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western tower was added in 1678 but has a medieval appearance. The chancel was rebuilt in 1868 by Lord of the Manor,
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children. The Priory Group closed the school and college in mid-2009 and the property was again offered for sale.
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but died before its completion. The hall remained in the Owen family and its descendants for over 300 years.
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was opened in August 1942 and was used variously as a fighter, bomber and a training base during the
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The population of the Condover parish was recorded at the 2011 census as 1,957, a decrease on 2008.
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In 2011 JCA Adventure bought the house, and it now hosts children's residential adventure holidays.
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when it was sold to the Vynar family. In turn the Condover manor lands were purchased in 1586 by
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tablet on north-east wall of nave to "the eighteen (sic) men" of the parish who died serving in
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The lanes, footpaths and woodlands around Condover and Bomere Pool featured in several of the
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Church House, the Old School House and the Small House that is now known as Condover Court.
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1917), lived during her marriage at Condover House and is commemorated in Condover Church.
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DSO DFC & Bar RAF (1919–1941), who failed to return from operations on 3 August 1941.
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The Elizabethan manor house in Condover, Condover Hall, was sold to and operated by the
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Between the latter years of the war and the autumn of 1947 Condover was the site of a
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known as the Long Forest, which stretched almost the full length of South Shropshire.
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in Shropshire, England. It is about 5 miles (8 km) south of the county town of
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There are 12 parish councillors representing Condover, which is a warded parish:
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Article by John Wagstaff, which draws on information from Burney's detailed
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1530–1588), actor and court jester on whom the Shakespearian character of
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The famous American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), whose
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between 613 and 1017 the village was the principal settlement in the
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Condover Hall, Shropshire: The Story of an Elizabethan Country House
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Shrewsbury Golf Club, established in 1891, now has its main 18-hole
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stones, presumably robbed from a local derelict farmhouse or villa.
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The village has its own primary school, Condover Primary School, a
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it does not outcrop again until it appears east of Shrewsbury as
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parliamentary constituency, and the member of parliament since
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Condover Football Club plays in the Shrewsbury Sunday League
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Condover Cricket Club plays in the Shropshire Cricket League
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A Second World War Roll of Honour at the front of the church
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Condover originally formed a principal part of the ancient
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in 1071. The revenues of the manor were later forfeited by
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Shropshire Parish Registers, Lichfield Diocese, Volume VI
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The churchyard contains one of the finest collections of
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on the section without any intermediate stations between
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Condover Ward is represented by five parish councillors
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visited Shrewsbury to meet his brother-in-law, Prince
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and over half of the village has been classified as a
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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 8
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Condover contains a higher than normal proportion of
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is thought to have been based, was born at Condover.
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Oxford University Press. 1968. p. 38. 1351: 1349: 928:passes through the village, on its way from 710:Ward is represented by one parish councillor 466:Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury 449:. It formed a significant part of the great 1796:An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire 1867: 1853: 1694: 1000:and the sixth-form college in Shrewsbury. 783:The village lies just four miles south of 597:produced an electric model of the engine. 1688: 1442:"UK parliamentary election - 4 July 2024" 1346: 917:) runs through and calls at the village. 872:Sandstone quarrying and gravel sink holes 539:. Owen began the building of the current 645: 507: 1793: 1631: 1629: 1612:. YouCaxton Publications. p. 118. 1607: 1074:There are a few war-related memorials: 550:Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 2266: 1783:. Oxford University Press. p. 39. 1739: 1671: 1487: 1383:Conservation area PDF with many photos 1096:– the names listed include one woman, 819:, an important local tributary of the 432: 397:. Condover is near to the villages of 1848: 1145:holds six meets each year at Condover 1125:The parish church, previously in the 626: 512:Condover hall from the front driveway 2034:List of civil parishes in Shropshire 1798:. Shropshire Libraries. p. 16. 1778: 1643: 1626: 1601: 1532: 1526: 844:, and Sharpstone Hill. North of the 827:some seven miles to the south west. 803:. To the west lies the Pre-Cambrian 1772: 1758: 1701:Condover Parish Registers (to 1811) 1490:"Mammoths survived late in Britain" 1227:and was curate of Condover 1816–19. 1020:dates from the 12th century and is 600: 38:SS Mary & Andrew parish church, 13: 1152:at Condover, which opened in 1971. 980:school with 109 pupils aged 5–11. 948:runs through the currently closed 589:. 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Condover is located in Shropshire
Shropshire
OS grid reference
SJ4906
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Shropshire
Ceremonial county
Shropshire
Region
West Midlands
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Shrewsbury
Postcode district
SY5
Dialling code
Police
West Mercia
Fire
Shropshire
Ambulance
West Midlands
UK Parliament
Shrewsbury
Condover parish council
UK

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