| Country: | England |
| Static Image Name: | The Manor. - geograph.org.uk - 424831.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Cherrington Manor |
| Coordinates: | 52.776°N -2.497°W |
| Official Name: | Cherrington |
| Label Position: | bottom |
| Civil Parish: | Tibberton and Cherrington |
| Unitary England: | Telford and Wrekin |
| Lieutenancy England: | Shropshire |
| Region: | West Midlands |
| Constituency Westminster: | The Wrekin |
| Post Town: | NEWPORT |
| Postcode District: | TF10 |
| Postcode Area: | TF |
| Dial Code: | 01952 |
| Os Grid Reference: | SJ664199 |
Cherrington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Tibberton and Cherrington, in the Telford and Wrekin district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It was recorded as a manor in Domesday, when it was held by Gerard de Tournai, and was stated to have been held by a man named Uliet in the time of Edward the Confessor, although it was recorded as "waste", in an uncultivated state, by the time Gerard took possession of it.[1] In 1961 the parish had a population of 122.[2]
Cherrington is near to the larger village of Tibberton, to the east; Waters Upton is to the west and Great Bolas to the north-west. Newport is the nearest town. It contains several half-timbered buildings including Cherrington Manor, which dates from 1635 and was probably built for a landowner and Member of Parliament, Sir Richard Leveson of Lilleshall (1598-1661).
Its name is possibly derived from the Old English personal name Ceorl, or it may have originally been "Ceorranton" from the name Ceorra ("the settlement of Ceorra's people").[3]
Cherrington Manor (or in some versions, the malt-house standing behind it) was popularly supposed to have been the building referenced in the nursery rhyme This Is the House That Jack Built.[4] [5] The story is, however, a purely local attribution with no particular evidence to back it up.[4]
Cherrington was formerly a township in the parish of Edgmond,[6] from 1866 Cherrington was a civil parish in its own right,[7] on 1 April 1988 the parish was abolished and merged with Tibberton to form "Tibberton & Cherrington".[8]