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    the boundary with Powys in Wales. Wattlesborough is a former township within the present parish of Alberbury. The castle is a Grade 1 listed scheduled monument...
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    Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2010. The Leighton Baronetcy, of Wattlesborough in the County of Shropshire, was created in the Baronetage of England...
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    "Shrewsbury Castle" Archived 2012-10-06 at the Wayback Machine PSC. "Stokesay Castle" Archived 2012-10-06 at the Wayback Machine PSC. "Wattlesborough Castle" Archived...
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  • Wattlesborough Castle 1568: Richard Lewis 1569: Richard Newport of High Ercall Hall (3rd term) 1570: Sir Andrew Corbet, Kt of Moreton Corbet castle 1571:...
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    the north-east at Wattlesborough Hall the 12th century keep of Wattlesborough Castle survives, adjoining an 18th-century farmhouse. Listed buildings...
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    castle both remains in their ownership and retains the suffix to this day. Sundorne Castle was home of the Corbet-Pigott family Wattlesborough Castle...
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  • Sir Edward Leighton, 1st Baronet (c.1650–1711), of Wattlesborough Castle, Shropshire, was a Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of...
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  • Hopton Ludlow Moreton Corbet Quatford Red Rowton Shrewsbury Stokesay Wattlesborough Whittington Apley Belan Bank Bishop's Bryn Amlwg Brockhurst Bucknell...
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    Edward Leighton, 2nd Baronet, who moved his family seat here from Wattlesborough Castle, and was High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1727. In 1805, the 5th Baronet...
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    late sixteenth century. He was the eldest son of John Leighton of Wattlesborough Castle, Shropshire, and Joyce, daughter of Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley...
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  • and politician. He was the eldest son of Sir Edward Leighton of Wattlesborough Castle and his second wife Anne Dayrell, daughter of Paul Dayrell of Lillingstone...
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    Shrawardine, Wollaston, Halfway House, Wattlesborough Heath and Rowton, and has Alberbury Castle and Wattlesborough Castle within its borders. To the west the...
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    Wattlesborough Castle, Remains Of, Adjoining Wattlesborough to North West...
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  • Acton 1551: James Leche of Newtown 1552: Sir Edward Leighton of Wattlesborough Castle, Salop 1553: Nicholas Purcell, Lord of Talerddig 1554–1555: Richard...
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    Leighton (died 1600), MP for Shropshire, son of Sir Edward Leighton of Wattlesborough Castle, by whom she had seven children, including Robert, their eldest...
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    tower-houses at Upper Millichope and Wattlesborough, whilst several generations later the trend would result in Stokesay Castle. In the 13th century, Shropshire...
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    Sir Richard Corbet of Morton Corbet, then of Sir Thomas Leighton of Wattlesborough. Anne Devereux (c1453—after 1475), married as his first wife, Sir Thomas...
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    was from Feckenham, Worcestershire, England, born to John Leighton of Wattlesborough and Joyce Sutton, daughter of Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley. His brother...
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  • Devereux (c.1570 - 20 January 1620), who married Robert Leighton of Wattlesborough, Shropshire. Grace Devereux (born c.1572) Sir Walter Devereux, 5th Viscount...
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  • retrieved 1 February 2018 Historic England, "Wattlesborough Castle, remains of, adjoining Wattlesborough Hall to north-west, Alberbury with Cardeston...
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    Grane. Hon. Joyce Sutton, who married firstly Sir John Leighton of Wattlesborough. After his death, she married Richard Lee, MP for Much Wenlock, before...
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    Corbets of Moreton Corbet were descended from the Corbet family of Caus Castle, who had been important landowners in the Welsh Marches from the time of...
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    Thomas Leighton of Feckenham, Worcestershire, son of John Leighton of Wattlesborough in Shropshire and his wife, Joyce Sutton, in 1578. Leighton (who is...
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  • fourth son and ninth child of Sir Edward Leighton, 1st Baronet, of Wattlesborough in Shropshire. He entered the Army as a captain on 16 June 1716. In...
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  • providing a hobelar (a light cavalryman mounted on a hobby) for Wigmore Castle when there was war in the Welsh Marches. There were also a few other small...
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  • from the sovereign. Infeftment, it was ruled, should be "expede" at the Castle of Edinburgh.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)...
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    including two that subsequently found their way to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, although Trinity College, Cambridge has by far the largest collection of...
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    1581 Bromley and Sidney raised by 50% the pay of the clockkeeper at Ludlow Castle, where the council generally met, because of his diligence. In 1586, on...
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    Cheshire. His father was an army general and governor of Carrickfergus Castle, and had inherited the baronetcy, with estates centred at Loton Park, Shropshire...
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  • to the very large estates of Sir Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet and Wattlesborough. However, Thomas had died long before his parents. Around 1363 they...
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