View from the Stiperstones towards The Paddock

The Paddock from a distance March 2024

(from the opposite side looking towards the Stiperstones)

Above a photograph of The Paddock by Shropshire County Council from the book “Once Upon a Hill”

Wall at The Paddock at least 225 years old

Prehistoric? Stone in wall at The Paddock

Below is a image of the 1833 map of part of The Paddock.

It shows a property (350/351 on the Tythe map) but the later map 1890 does not show a property at this location. It would seem that there were 3 properties at Bleakmoor Gate and 1 at Bleakmoor Flat and one (perhaps 2) at The Paddock. The one or two at The Paddock had soon been abandoned by 1847 when they were rented by John Price and noted as arable on the Tythe Map.

Map dated approx 1830 (1in OS)

Location Today

Foxhall Tythe The Paddock 1847

25in OS map circa 1890 with houses marked from 1847 Tythe Map House numbers

Key

NO 1

Outbuilding

NO 2

NO 3

This is a very old Daffodil (Narcissus telamonius plenus) Found by Vincent Sion in 1620 hence the other name Narcissus Van Sion. Possibly planted by my Great great grandmother in the garden of No4.

Below views from No 3

The hill behind

NO 4

NO 5

NO 6

NO 7

NO 8

NO 9

NO 10

Building

NO 11

Buildings