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    Rowton is a small village in the Telford and Wrekin Borough, Shropshire, England. It is located seven miles north-west of Wellington. The area is a Chapelry...
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    1691) was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian from Rowton, Shropshire, who has been described as "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen"...
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  • Thumbnail for Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton
    in 1880, Corry was raised to the peerage as Baron Rowton, of Rowton Castle in the County of Shropshire on 6 May 1880, which was then his country residence...
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  • Rowton may refer to: Rowton, Cheshire Rowton, Shropshire Rowton Castle, a Grade II listed building in Shropshire Battle of Rowton Heath, a battle during...
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    Rowton Castle, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, is a Grade II* listed country house that was once the home of the Royal National College for the Blind...
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  • Rowton Halt railway station was a station in Rowton, Shropshire, England. The station was opened in 1935 and closed in 1963. The halt was located to the...
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    Richard Lyster (c. 1691–13 April 1766) of Rowton Castle, Shropshire, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons for 34...
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  • reducing to 1,639 at the 2011 census. The parish includes the villages of Rowton, Ellerdine and Cold Hatton, and a number of hamlets including Cotwall, Osbaston...
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  • Shropshire was established during the division of Saxon Mercia into shires in the 10th century. It is first mentioned in 1006. After the Norman Conquest...
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    Sir Lewis; Brooke, John, eds. (1964). "LYSTER, Richard (c.1691-1766), of Rowton Castle, Salop.". The House of Commons 1754–1790. The History of Parliament...
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    Thomas Bromley (chief justice) (category Lawyers from Shropshire)
    married to Isabel Lyster or Lister, daughter of Richard Lyster of Rowton, Shropshire. She survived him and acted as an executor of his will, inheriting...
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  • John Foster (by 1508 – between 1547 and 1551) (category Politicians from Shropshire)
    second wife was Isabel née Lister, a daughter of William Lister of Rowton, Shropshire, with whom he had two sons. He was a patten-maker or a mercer. He...
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  • This is a list of sheriffs and high sheriffs of Shropshire The sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the high sheriff was the...
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    John Beard, former leader of the Workers' Union (ashes scattered at Rowton, Shropshire). 14 October 2002 (2002-10-14): Victor Turton, former Lord Mayor of...
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    Ellerdine (category Villages in Shropshire)
    Retrieved 5 August 2023. The Shropshire Village Book, SFWI 1988, Pg64 "Rowton, Rowton All Hallows Church – Shropshire | Diocese of Lichfield". [permanent...
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    Little Shrawardine, Wollaston, Halfway House, Wattlesborough Heath and Rowton, and has Alberbury Castle and Wattlesborough Castle within its borders....
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    George Bromley (politician) (category Lawyers from Shropshire)
    judge of the Mid-Tudor and Elizabethan period, a member of an important Shropshire legal and landed gentry dynasty. Although his career was overshadowed...
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    Thomas Bromley (category Politicians from Shropshire)
    Drayton in Shropshire, the son of William Bromley of Mitley and Beatrix Hill. Jane Lacon, daughter of Sir Thomas Lacon of Willey, Shropshire. The Bromleys...
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  • Thumbnail for Newport railway station (Shropshire)
    Newport (Shropshire) station was a railway station serving Newport in Shropshire. that was situated on the Stafford to Shrewsbury Line via Wellington...
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  • Madeley Salop railway station) is a disused railway station in Madeley, Shropshire, England. The station was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1859...
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  • is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of Shropshire in the West Midlands. All changes since the re-organisation of local government...
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  • Thumbnail for Grade II* listed buildings in Shropshire (district) (H–Z)
    article comprises a list of these buildings in Shropshire (district) in the ceremonial county of Shropshire. The list has been sub-divided alphabetically...
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    in Shropshire at Rowton Castle as tenant of its then landlord, Baron Rowton, with whom he enjoyed friendship despite political differences, Rowton having...
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  • History of Shrewsbury (category History of Shropshire)
    The town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England, has a history that extends back at least as far as the year 901, but it could have been first settled earlier...
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  • Listed buildings in Ercall Magna (category Lists of buildings and structures in Shropshire)
    the village of High Ercall, and smaller settlements including Roden and Rowton, and is almost entirely rural. Most of the listed buildings are houses,...
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    Clungunford (category Villages in Shropshire)
    Clungunford is a village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England, located near the border with Herefordshire. The village features St. Cuthbert's...
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  • Bouldon Cheney Longville Clun Hopton Ludlow Moreton Corbet Quatford Red Rowton Shrewsbury Stokesay Wattlesborough Whittington Apley Belan Bank Bishop's...
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  • Thumbnail for Westbury railway station (Shropshire)
    Westbury railway station was a station in Westbury, Shropshire, England. The station was opened in 1862 by the Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway company...
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  • Thumbnail for Bromfield railway station (Shropshire)
    Bromfield railway station was a station in Bromfield, Shropshire, England. The station was opened in 1852 and closed for regular passenger train services...
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    and then besieged by Sir William Brereton. This resulted in the Battle of Rowton Heath in September, where Vaughan commanded a brigade of 1,000 cavalry;...
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