Bayston Hill, Shropshire - Largest Population of Any Village in County History and Information

Bayston Hill, Shropshire - With the Largest Number of Residents of Any Village in the County History and Facts

Bayston Hill has the Largest Population of Any Shropshire Village.

With over 5,000 residents in the 2011 census Bayston Hill is Shropshire's most populated village.

At just 3 miles from Shrewsbury centre it is easy to think of it as a dormitory village, but it has origins in the middle ages, borders on lovely Shropshire countryside, has 3 pubs, 2 churches, schools and a public library.

Lyth Hill to the south of the village is within walking distance from the centre, and is a major Shropshire attraction, especially for dog walkers, with open views to south Shropshire from the public parkland which follows top of the escarpment along the hillside.

There is remaining evidence of both an ancient British Iron Age hillfort and a Roman settlement located on the village's high grounds.

In the Middle Ages the heavily wooded Bayston Hill and Condover area was established as a Royal hunting forest. A busy rope works, complete with its own windmill built in 1835, existed on Lyth Hill in the 19th century.

The rope industry supplied the many mines, farms, and barge owners of those times in this area. A church was built alongside the village glebelands in 1843 to serve the local miners, quarrymen and railway navvies.

Standing on the south east side is the village's oldest archaeological site: a mounded Iron Age bivallate hill fort.

It's relatively low lying for such a structure and oddly named with the Danish name of The Burgs, but probably was not called that until sometime between the 14th and 16th centuries.

The village was surveyed for the Domesday Book during the year 1086, when it was called Begestan, and William Pantulf, an Anglo-Norman nobleman, held land there.

One final odd fact to ponder about Bayston Hill is that although the railway runs right past the village, Bayston Hill has never had its own railway station.

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Bishop's Castle Shropshire and the "Old House on Crutches"

Bishop's Castle is a small market town in the southwest of Shropshire, England, and formerly its smallest borough.

Bishops Castle was one of the so-called Rotten Boroughs. A Rotten Borough was a borough where, prior to the Reform Act 1832, there were very few voters and one person or family could exert undue influence over the election of an MP. According to the 2011 Census it had a population of 1,893.

Bishop's Castle is close to the Wales-England border, and about 20 miles south-west of Shrewsbury.
The original castle is now no more than a few stones, but then it was very old, having been first built in 1127.

The town stands on the edge of Clun Forest.

It is 500 feet above sea level and surrounded by hills, the highest of which rise to 1,500 feet.

Walk around town, and you will see Tudor Houses, the Old Hall square, the Old Market Hall Square, and the Old House on Crutches.

The Old Market Hall, coat of arms is still in the square. The original building was erected by Lord Clive of India circa 1770-1775 but demolished in 1951.

The Powis Coat of Arms which was on the original building has been saved and is the centrepiece of this little square. The Old House on Crutches gets its name from the overhanging upper storey which is supported by posts.

The Town Hall is one of the smallest in England, and exhibits 2 silver maces hallmarked 1697.

The Three Tuns Inn dates back to 1642, and is the oldest licensed brewery site in Britain.

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