
Condover
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Condover is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is about south of the county town of Shrewsbury, and just east of the A49. The Cound Brook flows through the village on its way from the Stretton Hills to a confluence with the River Severn. Condover is near to the villages of Dorrington, Bayston Hill and Berrington. The population of the Condover parish was estimated as 1,972 for 2008, of which an estimated 659 live in the village of Condover itself. The actual population measured at the 2011 census had fallen to 1,957.
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- Locality
- Condover
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 721
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Condover
- UK place.static_image_name
- CondoverChurch.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- SS Mary & Andrew parish church,viewed from the south
- UK place.population
- 1,957
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Condover
- UK place.unitary_england
- Shropshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Shropshire
- UK place.region
- West Midlands
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Shrewsbury
- UK place.post_town
- Shrewsbury
- UK place.postcode_district
- SY5
- UK place.postcode_area
- SY
- UK place.dial_code
- 01743
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SJ4906
- UK place.website
- Condover parish council
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 1957
- Official website
- condoverpc.org.uk
- Image
- CondoverChurch.JPG
- Dialing code
- 01743
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- Commons category
- Condover
- postal code
- SY3
- OS grid reference
- SJ4906
- P8168
- John Rex
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Article
31 sectionsContents
- History
- Medieval beginnings
- Later history
- Second World War
- Residential school
- Condover in the media
- Governance
- Historical
- Parish Council
- County
- Westminster
- Demographics
- Historical
- Current
- Geography
- Waterway
- Geology
- Sandstone quarrying and gravel sink holes
- Transport
- Bus route
- Cycle route
- Railways
- Education
- Primary
- Secondary
- Parish church
- Sports
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Condover is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is about south of the county town of Shrewsbury, and just east of the A49. The Cound Brook flows through the village on its way from the Stretton Hills to a confluence with the River Severn. Condover is near to the villages of Dorrington, Bayston Hill and Berrington. The population of the Condover parish was estimated as 1,972 for 2008, of which an estimated 659 live in the village of Condover itself. The actual population measured at the 2011 census had fallen to 1,957.
Condover contains a higher than normal proportion of listed buildings and over half of the village has been classified as a conservation area since 1976. The more than forty listed structures in Condover range from six separate early cruck-framed buildings and many black-and-white timbered cottages to the 19th-century Old Vicarage and several funerary monuments in the churchyard. Of the early half-timbered houses, the most impressive are Church House, the Old School House and the Small House that is now known as Condover Court.
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