Pickstock Explained

Country:England
Static Image Name:Pickstock. - geograph.org.uk - 433211.jpg
Static Image Caption:Minor road through Pickstock, Shropshire
Coordinates:52.804°N -2.406°W
Official Name:Pickstock
Civil Parish:Chetwynd
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:SJ726230

Pickstock is a hamlet in the civil parish of Chetwynd, in the Telford and Wrekin district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is near the town of Newport. In 1870-72 the township had a population of 157.[1]

Its name is of Old English origin and may mean "Pices' stoc ("dependent settlement")".[2] Situated in an isolated rural area, it was an outlying township of the manor, and later parish, of Edgmond.[3]

Pickstock is south-east of the village of Sambrook and the River Meese (where there was once a watermill) runs nearby. The Pickstock Cross, the stump of an old preaching cross of unknown age, lies in a private garden in the village.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Pickstock. A Vision of Britain through Time. 4 March 2023.
  2. Bowcock, E. W. Shropshire place names, Wilding & Son, 1923, p.182
  3. Eyton, R. W. Antiquities of Shropshire v.9, 1859, p.125
  4. http://www.discovershropshire.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/resource:20070525213747 Pickstock Cross