Wistanstow
Wistanstow is a village and parish in Shropshire, England. Wistanstow is located about 5 miles south of Church Stretton and 8+1⁄2 miles north of Ludlow.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Phil Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of the Holy Trinity and Craven Arms railway station.
Craven Arms railway station
Railway station
Photo: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Craven Arms railway station serves the town of Craven Arms, in Shropshire, England. Until 1974, it was known as Craven Arms and Stokesay, after the nearby coaching inn and the historic settlement of Stokesay to the south. Craven Arms railway station is situated 1½ miles south of Wistanstow.
Flounders’ Folly
Photo: Jon Rob, Public domain.
Flounders' Folly is a tower built in 1838 on Callow Hill, near Craven Arms at the western end of Wenlock Edge in Shropshire, England. It is approximately 80 feet tall, 16 feet square and clearly visible on the skyline from the Cardiff–Crewe railway line, just north of Craven Arms, or from the A49 Shrewsbury to Hereford road. Flounders’ Folly is situated 2 miles east of Wistanstow.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Strefford and Cheney Longville.
Strefford
Hamlet
Photo: Dpaajones, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Strefford is a historic hamlet in Shropshire, England. It lies in the civil parish of Wistanstow and is situated just off the A49 road, 2 miles north of the small town of Craven Arms.
Cheney Longville
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cheney Longville is a small village in Shropshire, England. It lies in the parish of Wistanstow, near the small market town of Craven Arms. It was simply called "Langfeld" in 1087, when it was owned by Shrewsbury Abbey.
Woolston
Hamlet
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woolston, in the south of the county of Shropshire, England, is a hamlet located in the parish of Wistanstow, one mile northwest of that village, near Craven Arms.
Wistanstow
- Type: Village with 791 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Wistanstow, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.46501° or 52° 27′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.83846° or 2° 50′ 18″ westPopulation
791Elevation
486 feet (148 metres)Open location code
9C4VF586+2JOpenStreetMap ID
node 268227568OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2633759Wikidata ID
Q3877205
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Wistanstow” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Wistanstow”
- Cebuano: “Wistanstow”
- Dutch: “Wistanstow”
- French: “Wistanstow”
- Irish: “Wistanstow”
- Ladin: “Wistanstow”
- Polish: “Wistanstow”
- Swedish: “Wistanstow”
- Turkish: “Wistanstow”
- Welsh: “Wistanstow”
- “Wistanstow”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wistanstow”. Photo: Phil Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.