Adderley

For other uses, see Adderley (disambiguation).

Adderley
Adderley School
Adderley is located in Shropshire
Adderley
Adderley
Location within Shropshire
Population372 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSJ661397
Civil parish
  • Adderley
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMARKET DRAYTON
Postcode districtTF9
Dialling code01630
PoliceWest Mercia
FireShropshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
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Shropshire
52°57′14″N 2°30′14″W / 52.954°N 2.504°W / 52.954; -2.504

Adderley is a village and civil parish in the English county of Shropshire, several kilometres north of Market Drayton. It is known as Eldredelei in the Domesday Book.

The Irish statesman Robert le Poer was parish priest of Adderley in 1319.[2]

Here is the description of the village from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868):

"ADDERLEY, (or Atherley), a parish in the hundred of North Bradford, in the county of Salop, 4 miles to the N.W. of Market Drayton. It is situated on the Grand Junction canal and the river Weaver. It comprises the townships of the Morrey and Spoonley. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lichfield value £665, in the patronage of Richard Corbet. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The parochial charities amount to £68 a year. Shavington Hall, the residence of the Earl of Kilmorey, and Adderley Hall are the principal seats."[3]

St Peter's Church, rebuilt in 1801, is a grade I listed building.[4]

Among local facilities is a village hall, opened in 1921 as a First World War war memorial to local men who are commemorated on a brass tablet indoors. The hall replaced a club room which had become inadequate for the needs of the village.[5]

Adderley Hall was completed in 1881 when rebuilt after a fire but was demolished in 1955.[6]

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  2. ^ F.E. Ball, The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926 Vol.I p.71
  3. ^ Genuki
  4. ^ "Church of Saint Peter, Adderley". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  5. ^ Francis, Peter (2013). Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance. YouCaxton. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-909644-11-3.
  6. ^ The Database of Houses Archived September 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine