Chetwynd is a rural civil parish just to the north of Newport, Shropshire in England.
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Although the parish contains no substantial nucleated settlements it includes the Chetwynd Park estate, in addition to Sambrook, Howle, Pickstock and a number of other small hamlets.
The north-eastern boundary of the parish is formed by an old Roman road, now a country lane, while its eastern boundary runs along the Lonco Brook.[1]
The parish church, dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels, was built in 1865 to the designs of Benjamin Ferrey[2] and contains a fine East window [1] depicting "Christ adored by the hosts of Heaven", designed by John Hardman in 1881. The chancel windows, one of which is a war memorial to parish dead of World War I and designed by Dunstan Powell,[3] are also by Hardman, while the windows in the nave were designed by Francis Skeat in 1963.[4]
An F1/T2 tornado formed within the civil parish on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day.[5] The tornado later moved over Newport, causing some damage there.
The former RAF Chetwynd is nearby.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Chetwynd CP, ONS
- ^ "Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries". The History of Chetwynd Church. Diocese of Lichfield. Archived from the original on 6 December 2010. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
- ^ Francis, Peter (2013). Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance. YouCaxton Publications. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-909644-11-3.
- ^ Newman, John; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006). The buildings of England: Shropshire. Yale University Press. p. 198. ISBN 0-300-12083-4. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
- ^ "European Severe Weather Database".
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