Place:Ashford Carbonel, Shropshire, England

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NameAshford Carbonel
Alt namesAshford Carbonellsource: Family History Library Catalog
Ashford-Carbonellsource: hyphenated form of above
Huntingtonsource: manor in parish
TypeChapelry, Civil parish
Coordinates52.33°N 2.7°W
Located inShropshire, England
See alsoMunslow Hundred, Shropshire, Englandhundred in which it was chiefly located
Stottesden Hundred, Shropshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Wolphy Hundred, Herefordshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Ellesmere Rural, Shropshire, Englandrural district 1894-1967
NOTE: Huntington in Ashford Carbonel, Shropshire, described here, is one of six places named Huntington in England. Huntington also exists in the counties of Cheshire, Yorkshire, Herefordshire (where there are two), and Staffordshire. There are also other places named "Huntingdon" including the county town of the former County of Huntingdonshire. Care should be taken in checking sources.


source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Ashford Carbonel (or Ashford Carbonell) is a village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England, near the county border with Herefordshire.

The village lies 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of the market town of Ludlow, on the eastern side of the River Teme, facing the smaller Ashford Bowdler. The river acts as the boundary between the parishes of Ashford Bowdler and Ashford Carbonel, and is crossed locally by Ashford Bridge, which takes the Caynham Road from the A49 road towards Caynham.

The civil parish (which is formally named Ashford Carbonel) had a population of 321 as recorded in the UK 2011 census; the area covered by the parish is 635 hectares (1,570 acres).

Ashford Carbonel formed part of the hundred of "Culvestan", which in the 12th century became Munslow Hundred. Part of the parish (Huntington and "The Serpent") however instead became part of the hundred of Stottesden which stretched further west before the advent of the Wenlock Franchise.

Huntington was a manor mentioned (separately to Ashford Carbonell) in the Domesday Book (1086). Today it is a small hamlet just outside the village. "The Serpent" is a former pub which gave its name to a crossroads on the Caynham Road, located midway between the villages of Ashford Carbonell and Caynham but within the parish of Ashford Carbonel.

The parish church, dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene, is Norman in origin.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Ashford Carbonel from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"ASHFORD-CARBONELL, a parish in Ludlow [registration] district, Salop; on the river Teme, near Wooferton [railway] station, 3 miles S by E of Ludlow. It has a post office under Ludlow. Acres: 1,478. Real property: £2,657. Population: 282. Houses: 59. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Little Hereford, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is good."
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