English Heritage sites near Lydbury North Parish
CLUN CASTLE
5 miles from Lydbury North Parish
11th century Welsh Border castle with dramatic riverside location and extensive earthworks built to proclaim Norman dominance. Tall 13th century keep is unusually set on the side of its mound.
STOKESAY CASTLE
6 miles from Lydbury North Parish
Stokesay Castle is quite simply the finest and best preserved fortified medieval manor house in England.
MITCHELL'S FOLD STONE CIRCLE
8 miles from Lydbury North Parish
A Bronze Age stone circle, the focus of many legends, set in dramatic moorland on Stapeley Hill. It once consisted of some 30 stones, 15 of which are still visible.
WIGMORE CASTLE
12 miles from Lydbury North Parish
One of the most important castles in the history of the Welsh Marches and major centre of power for over 500 years, hosting royalty on several occasions. Deliberately demolished during the Civil War.
LANGLEY CHAPEL
14 miles from Lydbury North Parish
A small chapel tranquilly set all alone in charming countryside. Its atmospheric interior contains a perfect set of 17th-century timber furnishings, including a musicians' pew.
ACTON BURNELL CASTLE
14 miles from Lydbury North Parish
Twice the home of parliaments, this red sandstone shell of a semi-fortified tower house was built between 1284-93 by Bishop Burnell, Edward I's Lord Chancellor.
Churches in Lydbury North Parish
Lydbury North: St Michael & All Angels
Centre of the village
Lydbury North
Bishop's Castle
(01588) 630324
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Lydbury North is an ancient parish located in a pleasant valley amidst the beautiful Shropshire hills. Our community includes a wide mix of ages and lifestyles. Our worship is often traditional, but some of our services are lay led , and therefore likely to have a more relaxed, artistic and child friendly approach. We are all very aware of the need to keep our community vibrant and viable, and we value enormously our village shop and post office, (which is run by a rota of villagers for the village) and the church primary school, Lydbury North C of E Primary School.
The Church at Lydbury North is dedicated to Saint Michael and All Angels. There is a picture of Saint Michael in the stained glass window behind the organ. We know that there was a parish of Lydbury in Saxon times and that it was large and important. In 780 AD Egwin Shakehead was the owner of the parish. He suffered from the palsy and it is believed that he was cured of it when he visited the shrine of Saint Ethelbert at Hereford. He was so grateful for his cure that he gave the parish as a gift to the Bishop of Hereford. The oldest remaining parts of our church were built in the time of the Normans. William the Clerk was the priest at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086. The stone font still used for Baptisms today dates from this time. There are also some very fine Jacobean carved box pews in our church.
We are proud of the fact that the church has an ancient Roman Catholic chapel, the Plowden Chapel , where mass is still said once a year. We also have strong links with Walcot Hall, with the newly re-ordered Walcot Chapel being in the south aisle.
Pubs in Lydbury North Parish
Powis Arms
Main Street, Brampton Road, Lydbury North, SY7 8AU
(01588) 680254
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