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Wrockwardine (pronounced "Rock-war-deen/dyne") is a village and civil parish in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It lies north of The Wrekin and the M54/A5, and west of Wellington. There is a Church of England parish church, St Peter's, dating back to Saxon times. ==The Village== The place-name 'Wrockwardine' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Recordine''. It appears as ''Wroch Wurthin'' in 1169, and ''Wrocwurthin'' in 1196. The name means 'homestead by the Wrekin'.〔Eilert Ekwall, ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p.539.〕 Wrockwardine is a small village, and St Peter's Church is the main central feature but there are a number of other buildings of historical interest. Wrockwardine Hall stands by the church, on the north side. From the south are the Alms-Houses, and the Old School House, both now private houses. There is a more modern village school opposite the church, now used as a private nursery. On a small green to the north is an unusual war memorial consisting of a large boulder from the nearby Leaton Quarry. Another memorial, a brass plaque, is in the church. The Alms-Houses were built in 1841, for the maintenance of two poor women in declining years, and erected by tenants and neighbours in memory of Edward Cludde, "in testimony of their respect for a man who was an eminent example of pure and undefiled religion, visiting the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and keeping himself unspotted from the world." 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「Wrockwardine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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