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]