Edgmond


Edgmond is a village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. The village population at the 2011 Census was 2,062. It lies north-west of the town of Newport.
Harper Adams University is in Edgmond. The University has accommodation in the village, where many international students stay. The main subjects taught at the college are related to the food chain and much research is done there. Here on 10 January 1982 the English lowest temperature weather record was broken :.
The village has two pubs, an Anglican parish church, a Methodist chapel and hall, a village hall , and a village shop with a co-located post office.
There is a recreation field called simply "The Playing Fields", where there are Sunday cricket games, pub football matches, and a playground for young children. The village also has many areas for walking and biking including an area called the Rock Hole, an old sandstone quarry from which the rock used to build the local church was taken.
Also popular is the canal walk, which leads down to the local town of Newport along the old canals. The canals are now often used for fishing competitions. There has been much speculation about the possibility of reopening the old Shrewsbury and Newport Canal route.
There is a church and school in Edgmond. The church is dedicated to St.Peter and is in the Archdeaconry of Salop and Diocese of Lichfield. The village Church of England primary school is called St.Peters.
The parish war memorial, on a roadside, erected to commemorate war dead of World War I, consists of a sandstone pillar surmounted by a crucifix with figures of a soldier and a nurse looking up at the figure of Christ.

Notable people

Previous Rectors of Edgmond included Thomas Bucknall Lloyd from 1888 to 1896, dying there, and Sir Lovelace Stamer, from 1896 to 1905, during which period he built new schools for local children, organised a working men's club and reading rooms, and paid for a piped water supply for the village.

Customs

The church holds an annual Church Clipping service, which claims to be the longest uninterrupted clipping service in the country.
Edgmond was once associated with the practice of souling, a possible contributor to the halloween practice of trick or treating. The folk song "The Edgmond Man's Souling Song" was released by folk musicians John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris on their 1976 album Among The Many Attractions at the Show will be a Really High Class Band.

Etymology

The name Edgmond comes from the Anglo-Saxon for edge of marsh; the hamlet of Edgmond Marsh lies north of the village at.

Transport

Bus

Services operating in the Edgmond area, as of 2014:
NumberRouteOperatorDays of operation
19Newport - EdgmondArriva MidlandsMonday - Friday
519Newport - ShrewsburyArriva MidlandsMonday - Saturday