| Plowden | |
|---|---|
 Topiary at Plowden | |
  Plowden Location within Shropshire | |
| OS grid reference | SO384875 |
| Civil parish | |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LYDBURY NORTH |
| Postcode district | SY7 |
| Dialling code | 01588 |
| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Shropshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Plowden is a hamlet in the parish of Lydbury North, Shropshire, England.[1] It is in the valley of the River Onny and lies 3 miles east of Bishop's Castle. Plowden was one of the stations on the Bishops Castle Railway, which closed in 1935.[2]
Plowden Hall is a grade II* listed building, being a timber-framed building dating in part from about 1300,[3] and is described in the novel John Inglesant by Joseph Henry Shorthouse, who drew the place as Lydiard.[4][5] Its owners, the Plowden family, remained Roman Catholics after the Reformation and there is a Roman Catholic church of St Walburga in Plowden.[6] When Edwin Plowden was awarded a life peerage in 1959 he took the title of Baron Plowden of Plowden in the county of Salop. GWR Hall class locomotive 4956 was named after the hall.
- ^ "North Lydbury". GENUKI. Archived from the original on 16 March 2004. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ "History". Bishops Castle Railway Society. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1054564)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ Dickins, Gordon (1987). An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire. Shropshire Libraries. pp. 68, 107.
- ^ "Plowden". Literary Heritage: West Midlands. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ "Pastoral Spiritual and Practical Care to the Local Communities". The Diocese of Shrewsbury. Archived from the original on 21 April 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2010.