Woore
Woore | |
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St Leonard's Church, built c. 1830-31 | |
Location within Shropshire | |
Population | 633 (2011) |
OS grid reference | SJ730422 |
Civil parish |
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Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | CREWE |
Postcode district | CW3 |
Dialling code | 01630 |
Police | West Mercia |
Fire | Shropshire |
Ambulance | West Midlands |
UK Parliament | |
Website | Parish Council |
Woore (
Etymology
The name means "boundary" in ancient Celtic or Anglo-Saxon ("Oure"), and this fits nicely with the fact that it is on the boundary with both the counties of Cheshire and Staffordshire. The parish is the most northerly in Shropshire.
Location
The nearest significant towns to Woore are Market Drayton, Whitchurch, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Nantwich and Crewe. The A51 and A525 roads run through the village, the A51 being the old London - Chester post road. (Changes of horses used to be available at the former Swan Inn, now flats, in the centre of Woore itself.) The only road links between Woore and the rest of Shropshire pass through adjoining counties. The village is also the farthest place in Shropshire from the centre of the county near Cantlop.
History
The
Racecourse
The village had a National Hunt racecourse until 1963, served by Pipe Gate railway station in the south of the parish, which was closed under the Beeching "Axe".[3]
Modern day
The village today is mostly residential with a number of small shops, centred on the Post Office and general stores on the village square. Two public houses service the village, along with one modern red brick primary school and two churches, the smaller of which is a Methodist church, popularly known as "the Chapel on the corner", and the larger of which is St. Leonard's Church of England parish church.
Woore Cricket Club play at the Falcon Field in the village, which slopes downwards dramatically from the Pavilion and Falcon Inn sides.[4]
Bridgemere Garden World is to the north of Woore, just over the border in Cheshire.
St Leonard's Church
St. Leonard's church was constructed in about 1830–31, to serve what were then five townships of the Shropshire portion of the ancient parish of
Transport
Woore no longer has bus services. It was previously served by a bus connecting the village with
There is no railway station in Woore but there was a
Notable residents
- William Bridges Adams (1797 in Woore – 1872) author, locomotive engineer and inventor of the Adams axle
- Albert Lightfoot (born 1936 in Woore) a cricketer for Northamptonshire
- Stoke City F.C
- Nick Hancock (born 1962) TV personality owned a £1.1m mansion near Woore[7]
Civil parish
The civil parish includes several other hamlets and villages including Gravenhunger, Dorrington, Pipe Gate, Bearstone, part of Onneley (the remainder being in the neighbouring Staffordshire Parish of Madeley) and Ireland's Cross.
The
Woore is within Market Drayton East ward for elections to Shropshire Council.[8]
See also
Notes and references
- Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
- Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
- ISBN 0-7153-5121-4.
- ^ Woore Cricket Club
- ^ "Church of Saint Leonard - Woore - Shropshire - England". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ [1] CWGC Casualty record.
- ^ "Don't ban me from the roads.. I'm on TV, Nick Hancock tells Scottish court". Daily Record. 13 November 2008. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
- ^ "Market Drayton East ward" (PDF). Shropshire Council. 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
External links
Media related to Woore at Wikimedia Commons