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Tong Castle was a very large mostly Gothic country house in Shropshire whose site is between Wolverhampton and Telford, set within a park landscaped by Capability Brown, [1] on the site of a medieval castle of the same name. The original castle was built in the 12th century.
Tong Castle was a very large mostly Gothic country house in Shropshire whose site is between Wolverhampton and Telford, set within a park landscaped by Capability Brown, on the site of a medieval castle of the same name. The original castle was built in the 12th century.
Tong Castle was demolished in 1954 by the Army after it had fallen into disrepair. Before the building of the A41 bypass in 1963, the distance from Tong Castle to the church was 1,640 feet (500 m) alongside the body of water known as Church Pool as the traditional road ran around the church and through the village.
- England
- Shropshire
- Etymology
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- Tong Castle
- Potential New Town Development
The name of the village derives from the Old English Tweonga, which means a pinched piece or spit of land; cf. tongs. This stems from the fact that Tong sits between two tributaries of the infant River Worfe.
In the 1840s, Tong was surveyed by two different railway companies. The Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton Railwaywas eventually driven further south to run through Ruckley and Neachley (just south of the M54), whilst the Shrewsbury and Leicester Direct Railway, which would have gone in a north-east to south-west direction between Tong and Tong Norton, w...
The village is remarkable mainly for its church, St Bartholomews, inside of which is the supposed grave of Little Nell, a fictional character in Charles Dickens's book, The Old Curiosity Shop. It is thought that Dickens visited Tong church. His grandmother is supposed to have worked at Tong Castlemany years before as a girl. The Castle (demolished ...
Funerary art in St Batholomew's church, TongIsabel de Lingen (died 1446) and her third husband, Fulke de Pembrugge (died 1409). Isabel founded the chantry and collegeat Tong for her own and her husbands' souls. It became the shrine church of...Richard Vernon (died 1451, foreground) and Benedicta de Ludlow. Through their marriage the Vernons of Haddon Hall obtained Tong. Tomb in St Bartholomew's Church, Tong, Shropshire. Richard was Speak...Benedicta de Ludlow (foreground) and Richard Vernon (died 1451). This tomb has the most impressive sculpture at Tong.Tong Castle was a large mostly Gothic country house, set within a park landscaped by Capability Brown,on the site of a medieval castle of the same name. Tong Castle's remains are now a Historic England Grade II listed site.
Since 2018, Bradford Estates, who own land around Tong and surrounding villages in the area, have been promoting a new settlement proposal to Shropshire Council to build an employment park creating 9,000 jobs, up to 3,000 homes with a village centre, medical facility, school and four public parks on land on west side of the A41 bounded by the M54, ...
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The Church contains one of the country’s finest collections of medieval tombs and effigies, dating between 1410 – 1632, that trace the history of Tong Castle and its Church. Documented in detail in William Dugdale’s ‘Visitation of Shropshire’ in 1663, people still come from far and wide to visit and especially to photograph the effigies.
Tong Castle (also known as Tong) Telford. England, Shropshire. Introduction. There are extensive 18th- and 19th-century gardens at Tong, on an estate with medieval origins. Capability Brown is implicated in the redesign.
17 de ene. de 2023 · Summary. When Viscount Newport (later 6 th Earl of Bradford) detonated explosive charges to demolish the remains of Tong Castle in 1954, he was perhaps realising a long-term ambition for his family, as owners of the neighbouring Weston Park estate.
