| Country: | England |
| Static Image Name: | Plowden and Topiary - geograph.org.uk - 617925.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Topiary at Plowden |
| Coordinates: | 52.483°N -2.913°W |
| Official Name: | Plowden |
| Civil Parish: | Lydbury North |
| Unitary England: | Shropshire |
| Lieutenancy England: | Shropshire |
| Region: | West Midlands |
| Constituency Westminster: | Ludlow |
| Post Town: | LYDBURY NORTH |
| Postcode District: | SY7 |
| Postcode Area: | SY |
| Dial Code: | 01588 |
| Os Grid Reference: | SO384875 |
Plowden is a hamlet in the parish of Lydbury North, Shropshire, England.[1] It is in the valley of the River Onny and lies 3 miles east of Bishop's Castle. Plowden was one of the stations on the Bishops Castle Railway, which closed in 1935.[2]
Plowden Hall is a grade II* listed building, being a timber-framed building dating in part from about 1300, and is described in the novel John Inglesant by Joseph Henry Shorthouse, who drew the place as Lydiard.[3] [4] Its owners, the Plowden family, remained Roman Catholics after the Reformation and there is a Roman Catholic church of St Walburga in Plowden.[5] When Edwin Plowden was awarded a life peerage in 1959 he took the title of Baron Plowden of Plowden in the county of Salop. GWR Hall class locomotive 4956 was named after the hall.