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Shelvock
Location
Geography
& Geomorphology
Origins
of the Family Name
Earliest
origins of the family names
Where
& When?
Occurrence
of the family names from the C16th - present day
A
History of Shelvock Manor
The
place and local environs providing the family name as well as
some other associated families
The
SHELVOKEs
The
story of engineering prowess and how a family name will become
extinct in modern times
The
SHELVOCKs
The
story of one couple's destiny to preserve the original family
name from extinction
A
Brief History of Halesowen
The
town that became the centre for the modern family name of
SHILVOCK
Demography
and Statistics
What
the data is telling us
Noted
People
An
offbeat listing of anyone with a notable recorded history
Commonwealth
War Graves, Memorials
The
names of those who served in the armed forces, those who
sacrificed their lives and other stories
Researchers
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SHELVOCK
One Name Study:Family Trees (1581-present day)
SHILVOCK
One Name Study:Family Trees (1639-present day)
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SHELVOCK
- The Music
6
sets of instrumental music inspired by the place and
history.
Composed and played by the Webauthor
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SHELVOCK LOCATION: GEOGRAPHY & GEOMORPHOLOGY -
Shelvock
- One of the Eleven Townships of Ruyton, Shropshire
Ruyton of the Eleven Towns
(Ruyton-XI-Towns) is in north Shropshire, England 3 km (2 miles)
west of Baschurch, 12.5 km (8 miles) NW of the county town of
Shrewsbury, and in the area of the Welsh Borders. The eleven
mediaeval towns, mostly situated to the north and west of Ruyton,
some of which still survive as hamlets or farms today, were
Coton, Eardiston, Felton, Haughton, Rednal, Ruyton, Shelvock,
Shotatton, Sutton, Tedsmore, and Wykey. It is a Peculiar1
of the Manor of Ruyton in the church Diocese
of Lichfield and forms part of the Oswestry Hundred2.
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Terminology:
1
- Peculiar - a
Church of England (Anglican) church or parish that is exempt
from the jurisdiction of the "ordinary" in whose
diocese it lies.
2 - Hundred
- an ancient division of land in England.
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Including other nearby villages and
hamlets that have early occurrences of the SHELVOCK family name,
the area is situated to the west of the River Perry, a main
tributary to the River Severn. The Severn forms an approximate
border to the south. Shelvock was a Domesday Manor (i.e. in
existence and recorded in 1086) probably dating back to Saxon
(post C6th Roman) times, later to be owned by the THORNES
family.
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The
boundaries of the Manor of Shelvock
as
walked on 24 June 1775 by Mr. Wm Owen Esq., Mr. Dixon, gent,
Mr. Oliver, Attorney at Laws, Edw. Tannatt steward to Mr.
Owen, Thos Birch and Wm Edwards, labourers;
"Beginning
at the Long Oak - young oak near the hedge of a yard to a
house called the Court House of Thos Lewis, basket maker,
leading down Long Oak Lane to the Gamester's Lane Gate and
along Gamester's Lane to the S. corner of the Farm of the
Heath, along the farm's ring fence to Knockin to Ruyton
Turnpike Road, along the said road to the gate that opens to
the Shrewsbury Turnpike Road; from that gate along the hedge
of Shotatton Township to the corner of the Lue Bank Common
where it goss along a ditch near the Shrewsbury Road by the
Ten milestone for c.240 yards beyond the milestone, where it
turns left along another ditch c.500 yards to a small turbary
c.40 yds over near a piece of land belonging to Coton called
the Heath Leasow, from the turbary to the hedge is c. 12 yds
where there is a rundlet oak. It follows the Coton Farm to
the Little Heath along the hedgeside by Coton Gate to a gate
opening into the S. side of Ruyton Park beyond the Turnpike
Road, then along the hedgeside of the Park towards Shotatton
to a lane at the S. corner of the Park; then along the W.
side of the Park to the road from Shelvock to Ruyton where
there is a gate and a wicket opening into Ruyton Park, along
the ring fence of Shelvock Farm to the Wigmarsh which
continues the ring fence to Hellbridge gate and following the
watercourse to the Walbrook, along the hedge side to the Long
Oak."
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Shelvock
Today - Location & Pictures
Shelvock can be found on
Ordnance Survey (OS) Landranger maps (Sheet 126). The farm, which
is rumoured to be haunted, is on the site of the old Manor of
Shelvock. The OS reference is SJ371240 2.5 km north west of
Ruyton-XI-Towns, just east of a minor crossroads at the hamlet of
Elbridge.
The full Easting & Northing: 337167 / 324110:
On modern maps, Shelvock comprises Shelvock
Hill (maximum elevation of 137m), Shelvock Plantation,
Shelvock Coppice & Shelvock (Farm). Shelvock is
a flat/topped hill as shown on the above map, and may have been
the site of an Iron Age farming settlement, although there is no
evidence for this except for the early naming of a place that
must have had some local importance. Today, Shelvock Farm is
situated on the lower northern extension to Shelvock Hill. Either
feature could be the origins of the shelf with oaks, but most
probably the main hill itself which now has a triangulation point
and a mobile telephone mast.
Shelvock
Farm viewed from the SW
(Photo
courtesy of Harry SHILVOCK of Halesowen)
The 1890 layout of Shelvock Farm:
In June 2000, this webauthor
made his own visit to Shelvock and some of the pictures are
included below. Regrettably, visits to the farm itself are not
encouraged by the owners and it was not possible to get more
detailed pictures. If you have any you'd be prepared to share,
please let me know.
Above: The main
entrance to Shelvock, probably built of local Shelvock Freestone.
The 1890 Gatehouse has long since disappeared.
The
driveway by the farm is part of a public right of way.
Opposite
the entrance is a small disused quarry that was probably the
source of the local stone.
Above: The
geomorphology of the northern end of the "shelf" is
still apparent today.
The larger tree on the left, on the
highest point of the shelf, is an oak!
(Note: A processed
image of this view provides the Shelvock music album cover and
the favicon for this website.)
Above: A rear
view of the farm.
The C19th farmhouse is to the right, behind
what appears to be significant ruins of the old original
manor.
The barns and farm outbuildings are of a style that
date back to the original C16th/C17th manor farm.
In the
centre of the farmyard is an ancient dovecote (slight left of
picture centre).
(The 2002 "Shropshire Buildings at Risk
Register" notes that the Game House or Ash House north east
of Shelvock Farmhouse, was rated Priority C and judged to be in
poor condition.)
External
Links to more Images of Shelvock:
A
view from the trig-point (TP5932)
on Shelvock Hill
(elev.
131m) SW of Shelvock overlooking the farm
Photos
by David Medcalf of Shelvock
Lake & Shelvock
Coppice
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