OS grid reference SO384875 Country England Post town LYDBURY NORTH Dialling code 01588 Civil parish Lydbury North | Region West Midlands Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district SY7 Ceremonial county Shropshire UK parliament constituency Ludlow | |
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Plowden is a hamlet in the parish of Lydbury North, Shropshire, England. It is in the valley of the River Onny and lies 3 miles east of Bishop's Castle. Plowden was one of the stations on the Bishops Castle Railway, which closed in 1935.
Map of Plowden, Lydbury North, UK
Plowden Hall is a grade II* listed building, being a timber framed building dating in part from about 1300, and is described in the novel John Inglesant by Joseph Henry Shorthouse, who drew the place as Lydiard. Its owners, the Plowden family, remained Roman Catholics after the Reformation and there is a Roman Catholic church of St Walburga in Plowden. When Edwin Plowden was awarded a life peerage in 1959 he took the title of Baron Plowden of Plowden in the county of Salop. GWR Hall class locomotive 4956 was named after the hall.