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Bouldon is a hamlet in Shropshire, England. It lies in the civil parish of Diddlebury. The hamlet comprises approximately 14 houses, a number of agricultural buildings and a public house named the "Tally Ho".〔(The Tally Ho )〕 It is by road northeast of the market town of Ludlow. ==History== Bouldon used to be a more populous place, as was this rural area of Shropshire generally, and was a place to stop en route between Ludlow and Bridgnorth. The route from Bouldon to Ludlow was a turnpike road between 1794 and 1873.〔(British History Online ) Bouldon〕 The main road between the towns of Ludlow and Bridgnorth no longer passes through the hamlet; it today takes a route to the east of Brown Clee Hill instead. Bouldon Mill is Grade II Listed〔(British Listed Buildings ) Bouldon Mill〕 former mill building in the hamlet, now a residence/therapy centre, which still has the Coalbrookdale iron-cast water wheel〔Raven, Michael ''A Guide To Shropshire'' (2005) p 32〕 (using the flow of the Pye Brook) and inside workings. The stone building was built in 1790 but there was a timber mill beforehand built in 1611.〔(Bouldon Mill Sanctuary ) – about us〕 It may have operated as a mill as late as the 1930s.〔(Shropshire Star ) Pictures from the Past: Bouldon Mill〕 There is also a house on the site where a small church, built from corrugated iron, used to be.〔 This small church, or chapel, was called All Saints and was erected by the rector of the Church of England's Holdgate parish (which Bouldon was part of until 1921) in 1873. It was demolished in the 1980s, having become dilapidated.〔Oliver, Marina (2006) ''Castles and Corvedale''〕 Bouldon had a charcoal-fuelled ironworks of its own in the 17th and 18th centuries, producing pig iron. It was important during the English Civil War. On 28 September 1643, Charles I authorised payment of £965 10s. to the iron master, Francis Walker, for manufacture of artillery and ammunition delivered to the Royalist forces at Shrewsbury, Bridgnorth and Worcester. It closed around 1795 and only a tree covered slag heap remains.〔 From the late 11th century to 1884, Bouldon was a detached part of Holdgate parish. Its transfer to Diddlebury parish was effectively a return to the situation prior to the change in the 11th century.〔 (Bouldon was transferred to the Church of England's ecclesiastical parish of Diddlebury, from Holdgate, only in 1921.)〔 The Domesday Book of 1086 records 4 households existing at the time. Bouldon was at that time part of Culvestan hundred,〔(Open Domesday ) Bouldon〕 a Saxon hundred that was in the early 12th century replaced by Munslow. The Tally Ho Inn was first licensed in 1844.〔 It closed in 2006, but reopened in 2012 as a locally-owned freehouse, and retains its country character and serves several local real ales.〔(Shropshire pub survey ) Bouldon〕 In Bouldon, and also in nearby Peaton and Peatonstrand, weather-board houses were constructed in the 1950s by the Church Commissioners, who bought the Holder Estate in 1942.〔 Of the four in Bouldon, two are currently derelict. The ones in Bouldon are named Cedarwood Houses. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bouldon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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