Place:Cherrington, Shropshire, England

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Cherrington is a village in Shropshire, England, in the modern civil parish of "Tibberton and Cherrington". The population of Tibberton and Cherrington together at the 2001 UK census was 684.

Cherrington was recorded as a manor in Domesday of 1086, when it was held by Gerard de Tournai, and was stated to have been held by a man named Uliet in the time of Edward the Confessor (circa 1003-1066), although it was recorded as "waste", in an uncultivated state, by the time Gerard took possession of it.

Cherrington is near to the larger village of Tibberton, located to the east. Waters Upton is to the west and Bolas Magna to the northwest. Newport is the nearest town. It contains several half-timbered buildings including Cherrington Manor, which dates from 1635 and was probably built for a landowner and Member of Parliament, Sir Richard Leveson of Lilleshall (1598-1661).

Cherrington Manor (or in some versions, the malt-house standing behind it) was popularly supposed to have been the building referenced in the nursery rhyme "This Is the House That Jack Built". The story is, however, a purely local attribution with no particular evidence to back it up.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Tibberton and Cherrington.

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

"CHERRINGTON, a township in Edgmond parish, Salop [Shropshire]; 5½ miles W of Newport. Population: 151. Houses: 28."

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