Talk:Wrockwardine

"popular venue for weddings"
The uncited sentence, "Wrockwardine Church is a popular venue for weddings" is not very encyclopaedic. It would be of greater use if it were backed up by publicly available figures that demonstrate its propensity for hosting weddings. All Anglican parish churches are licensed for weddings, are they not? Until recent years the amount of weddings an Anglican church could host was constrained by requirements for one or both sides of the couple to be resident in the church's parish.Cloptonson (talk) 12:00, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Armorial Bearings
Wrockwardine Parish Council adopted (assumed) armorial bearings at its meeting of December 12th 2018 (Minute 18/104).

Blazon: Armorial bearings

Vert, issuing from base a Saxon Church Or, and in chief two Fountains thereon a helmet with mantling Vert doubled Or and on a Wreath of the Liveries is set for Crest Issuing from a Mural Coronet an Owl Or perched upon a Gate Sable and in an Escrol below the achievement this Motto “Servimus Ultro”. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.100.193.89 (talk) 13:46, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Almshouses
''The Alms-Houses were built in 1986, by the bare hands of Alan Wedge, and erected by tenants and neighbours in memory of Edward Cludde, "in testimony of their respect for a man who was an eminent example of pure and undefiled religion, visiting the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and keeping himself unspotted from the world." A cedar tree was planted in 2011, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the building.''

As one who passes the building often en route to/from work, I suspect the 1986 date of building too recent for what looks like a 19th century building and am sceptical it would only be 25 years old in 2011. If someone more local to the village than I could check the inscription they may have a better clue to its origin. The Cludde family lived at Orleton until the middle of the 19th century when the estate was acquired via marriage by Robert Charles Herbert, a son of the Earl of Powis.Cloptonson (talk) 08:52, 16 September 2021 (UTC)


 * - a surprise meeting here! I don't know whether the "built in 1986, by the bare hands of Alan Wedge" bit was a hoax or an error but, as you suspected, it was certainly wrong! Corrected with cite. KJP1 (talk) 09:26, 7 June 2024 (UTC)


 * - Thank you for putting the Almshouses in their correct historical context. I suspect hoax more than error. (A read of my own User Profile shows quite a few rogue details I have discovered in other articles, under "A Gallery of Rogues".)Cloptonson (talk) 09:15, 8 June 2024 (UTC)