Stapleton, Shropshire

Stapleton
Stapleton
	St John the Baptist parish church. Parish war memorial stands (right) outside east end.
	Stapleton Location within Shropshire
Population	245
OS grid reference	SJ469045
Civil parish	Condover;
Unitary authority	Shropshire;
Ceremonial county	Shropshire;
Region	West Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Shrewsbury
Postcode district	SY5
Dialling code	01743
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Shropshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Shrewsbury and Atcham;
Website	Condover Parish Council
	List of places UK England Shropshire 52°38′06″N 2°47′10″W / 52.635°N 2.786°W

Stapleton (

First World War

war memorial site.

History

There is an embankment in the parish that has been suggested to be the remains of a Roman station. The Church of England parish church of St John the Baptist is an ancient building that was re-seated in 1790.^[1]

Stapleton was an

civil parish until 1 April 1967,^[2]

following which it became part of the present civil parish of Condover.

The Stapleton parish contains the hamlets of Upper and Lower Moat, Netley, Shady Moor, and Vinnels. 235 people lived in Stapleton in 1831 but by 1961 the population had shrunk to 191,^[3] and it is estimated that in 2011 it had grown to 245.^[4] In 1831 there were 45 houses to house the 235 people that lived in the village which means on average 5–6 people lived in each house; by 1961 there were 55 houses to house the 191 people which is an average of 3–4 people in each home. Out of the 72 people employed in 1831 in Stapleton 56 worked in agriculture including farmers and labourers who worked for them. From this we can see that farming and agriculture dominated the workforce of Stapleton.^[5] One of the places people worked is The Old Diary, which is still a working farm today.^[6]

Parish church

The church notable for the fact that on the top of the thick walls of a

Saxon origin. The church organ is among the top six hundred in the country and there is a small tapestry piece in the nave said to have been worked by Mary, Queen of Scots.^[8] The church of St John the Baptist was originally a dependent chapelry of Condover, and as such paid 10 shillings annually to the Shrewsbury Abbey, which had taken the advowson, or patronage, of the mother church. The church building, which seats 122, was restored in 1866, when the windows of the lower church were discovered. The then Rector, the Rev. Hon. C.W.A. Fielding, entered an account of the restoration, with illustrations, in the Vestry Book.^[9]

A brass plaque commemorates Fielding's son, Lieutenant Bertram Francis Percy Fielding, Wiltshire Regiment, who was killed in a mutiny at Fort Lubwas in Uganda in 1897.^[10]

In the churchyard is a war memorial stone Celtic cross to men of the parish who died serving in World War I.^[10]

Domesday Book

The

King Stephen, when Baldwin de Meisy was Lord of Stapleton and Wistanstow

. His descendants, who took the name of De Stapleton, held the manor till the beginning of the 15th century, when it passed to six co-heiresses, the daughters of Sir John Stapleton.

Notable people

Hugh Owen (topographer) (1761-1827), was Rector of Stapleton from 1819.^[11]

References

^ "Owen, Hugh (OWN778H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

External links

[1] Stapleton

[2] Stapleton Parish

[3] Vision of Britain – Stapleton History

[4] Stapleton Population

[5] Stapleton Housing and Industry

[6] The Old Dairy

[7] St John the Baptist Church History

[8] A church near you

[9] .org.uk

[swm-10] 
ISBN 978-1-909644-11-3
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[venn-11] "Owen, Hugh (OWN778H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

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