35-537: Oakly Park , Bromfield , Shropshire , England is a country house dating from the 18th century. In the early 19th century, the house was restored and extended by Charles Robert Cockerell , Surveyor to the Bank of England for his friend Robert Henry Clive . The private home of the Earls of Plymouth , Oakly Park is a Grade II* listed building . The origins of the present house are a mansion rebuilt and extended by William Baker for
70-493: A post office (open Monday-Friday only), a hotel/restaurant/bar, a large local food centre, a smaller restaurant/cafe, and a garden/plant centre. These are all located adjacent to one another in a recently redeveloped business area by the A49 road. Islabikes were based in the business area but moved to nearby Ludford ; they manufacture specialist bicycles, in particular for children. National Cycle Network route 44 passes through
105-711: A few on trunk roads in England. The section from Shrewsbury to Ludlow is prone to crashes. At Bromfield , the road meets the A4113 , and crosses the River Onny . Near the B4365 junction the road is crossed by the Shropshire Way . The 3-mile (4.8 km) £4m Ludlow Bypass opened in the summer of 1979. The bypass passes over then under the railway, then over the River Teme . The former route of
140-493: A large part (on both sides of the River Teme , and including a small part of the 1884 transfer from Stanton Lacy) transferred to Ludlow. Circa 1967 the borders of Ludford , Bromfield and Ludlow were re-aligned in the Whitcliffe area. 1987 saw a small area, containing the places of Wigley and Fishmore, transferred from East Hamlet which was being dissolved at the time. The effect of the boundary changes caused by this dissolution
175-710: Is crossed by the South Cheshire Way near Hinton . The Whitchurch bypass begins with a roundabout with the B5476, the old route through the town. The 3-mile (4.8 km) £13.7m Whitchurch Bypass (also part of the A41 ) opened in July 1992. It passes near Sir John Talbot's Technology College (on the A525), then crosses over the railway and also overlaps the A525 ( Newcastle-under-Lyme to Rhyl ). At
210-418: Is 2-lane up the hill and the north bound carriageway is 2-lane heading up the other side of the hill. This can be a common section for accidents and skid-offs. The road then swings towards Wellington with a short section of dual-carriageway. The A49 then reaches Hereford , the only major destination on the road without a bypass. The road passes right through the city centre, causing serious congestion on both
245-500: Is a Grade II* listed building as is the garden and park in which it stands. Other listed structures within the estate, all designated Grade II, include the balustrade in the forecourt, the stables, the lodge and gates at the start of the carriage drive and a bridge on the carriage drive where it crosses the River Teme . Bromfield, Shropshire Bromfield is a village and civil parish in Shropshire , England. According to
280-797: Is crossroads with the A533 and the road crosses the Cheshire Ring Canal Walk and Trent & Mersey Canal before crossing the Acton swing bridge over the Weaver Navigation. The 3-mile (4.8 km) £6 million Weaverham Diversion (near Northwich ) opened in September 1992. The old route is now the B5144, passing near Weaverham High School . The road passes over the West Coast Main Line railway after
315-799: Is near here. The road leaves the A51 to the west at Four Lane Ends near the Red Fox . The road travels over the Shropshire Union Canal and under the Welsh Marches Line railway (to Hereford ) south of Tiverton . It crosses over the River Gowy north of Bunbury next to the Beeston Castle (named after the real Beeston Castle to the west). The road briefly overlaps the A534 Wrexham Road from
350-746: Is the B5477 (former B4370) to the west. At a crossroads near Church Stretton railway station , the road meets the B4371. Further south it meets the B4370 (west) at Marshbrook . At Upper Affcot it passes the White House . The road meets the A489 at Wistanstow . At Craven Arms , there is the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre , and it meets the east-west B4368. At Onibury , there is a level crossing , one of only
385-607: Is the Oakmere Crossroads with the A556 (a Roman road ) south of Cuddington , before the road crosses the Whitegate Way . It then crosses the A54 near Abbots Moss Hall, and the road passes through Cotebrook, near Little Budworth Country Park. The 2-mile (3.2 km) £3.8 million Tarporley Bypass opened in September 1986. The A51 overlaps the A49. Tarporley Community High School
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#1732884922484420-512: The 1st Earl of Powis in the mid-18th century. In 1771, Powis sold the estate to Robert Clive , Clive of India, who engaged William Haycock to undertake rebuilding. Following Clive's death in 1774, his son, Edward , engaged Haycock's son, John Hiram Haycock to undertake further extensions for Clive's mother, Margaret , who continued to live at the property until her death in 1817. By the time of his mother's death, Edward had been created Earl of Powis, having married Henrietta Herbert , daughter of
455-668: The A6 road just south of Bamber Bridge , near the junction of the M6 , M65 and M61 motorways . As is hinted at by the way the place name of Stretton recurs along its route, its central part follows Iter XII of the Roman Antonine Itinerary . The stretch between Ross-on-Wye and the A5 at Shrewsbury is a trunk road , maintained by National Highways . From the A6 at Bamber Bridge , south of Preston ,
490-571: The Dissolution of the Monasteries , a priory at Bromfield . Three-quarters of Ludlow Racecourse and the Ludlow Golf Club are located in the parish, to the northeast of the village. The Welsh Marches Line passes through the parish, between the village and the racecourse. A level crossing and manned signal box still exist, but the station once sited here closed in 1958. The village now boasts
525-670: The River Roden . RAF Shawbury is 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) to the east, then the road passes over the Shropshire Way and through Hadnall , passing the New Inn . The Welsh Marches Line follows to the west. The Shrewsbury bypass starts at the Battlefield Roundabout (near scene of Battle of Shrewsbury ) with the A53 and A5124, near a Travelodge . There is a roundabout with
560-669: The Travellers Club in Pall Mall . Cockerell's subsequent work on the excavations at Bassae in Greece provided inspiration for some of the decoration at Oakly Park. Work on the house was undertaken in two stages, between 1819 and 1826, and a second phase from 1836. Oakly Park remains the private home of the Windsor-Clive family, the house presently being home to Lord Windsor, heir to the 4th Earl of Plymouth . The house and park are not open to
595-532: The Weaverham Roundabout . The section from Weaverham to Cuddington is a new much-straightened section. At Bryn, north of Cuddington, it passes the former site of Lactalis - Nestlé that made Ski and Munch Bunch yoghurts , closing in 2007 with production moving to central Europe, having made yoghurt since 1968. In Cuddington it crosses the Mid-Cheshire Line near Cuddington railway station . There
630-743: The Welsh Marches Line (until Woofferton). It crosses the Cound Brook near the Bridge Inn before passing through Dorrington , with The Horseshoes and over the railway. Through Leebotwood it passes The Pound . The road passes through the Stretton Gap on an alignment that was constructed in the late 1930s. Several stretches of the road follow the route of one of the Roman Roads later called Watling Street . The upgraded route bypasses All Stretton , Church Stretton and Little Stretton . The original route
665-741: The junction at Ridley and crosses over the River Weaver . At Cholmondeley there is Cholmondeley Castle . At the crossroads of Bickerton Road (for the castle) and Wrenbury Road , there is the Cholmondeley Arms . Moving from the parishes of Cholmondeley to Bickley east of Moss Wood, it also moves back into Cheshire West and Chester . It crosses the Shropshire Union Canal ( Llangollen Canal ) again at Tushingham cum Grindley , where it crosses into Marbury cum Quoisley and back into Cheshire East . The road enters into Shropshire and
700-518: The 2001 census it had a population of 306, which had fallen to 277 at the 2011 census. Bromfield is located near the market town of Ludlow , two miles (3 km) northwest of the town centre, on the A49 road . The A4113 road (to Knighton ) has its eastern end in Bromfield, at its junction with the A49. The village is situated near the confluence of the River Teme and River Onny . The latter splits
735-700: The A49 is the B4361. After the bypass, the road passes over the railway. At Woofferton , there is a T-junction with the A456 , and a staggered junction with the B4362 . Woofferton has a large radio transmitting station (the Woofferton transmitting station ) with a Mediumwave transmitter for BBC Hereford and Worcester . The road enters Herefordshire . The 1-mile (1.6 km) £1.4 million Brimfield Bypass opened in March 1983. South of Ashton
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#1732884922484770-884: The B5062. The bypass travels over the River Severn and under the railway and overlaps the A5 from the Preston Island roundabout . Shrewsbury was bypassed when the £64m east-west A5 bypass was built in August 1992. The route leaves the A5 at the Bayston Hill Roundabout on the south of the bypass, with the A5112 heading into Shrewsbury. It goes through Bayston Hill , passing the Compasses Inn . It passes near Lyth Hill Country Park , following
805-509: The Henry Herbert who had sold the Oakly estate to his father. Having inherited Powis Castle through his wife, he had little need for Oakly and its use passed to his second son, Robert . Elected Member of Parliament for Ludlow in 1818, the following year Clive commissioned his friend Charles Robert Cockerell to remodel the house. Clive and Cockerell had toured Europe together, and co-founded
840-493: The end of the bypass, the road overlaps as a dual-carriageway for 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4.0 km) with the A41, then leaves the A41 at a roundabout near Prees Heath, near the former RAF Tilstock airfield. It follows a Roman road southwards. The 2-mile (3.2 km) £1.3m Prees Bypass opened in August 1988. There is a staggered crossroads with the B5065, then the road passes over
875-639: The exception of a brief stretch northbound after meeting the A57 and another northbound before meeting the A5060 which has one lane reserved for buses during peak hours.). During this section, it passes under the Liverpool to Manchester Line railway (southern route), then has the Cockhedge Green roundabout with the A57 and passes to the east and south of the town centre of Warrington. (Its original north–south route through
910-947: The north and south sides of the River Wye . The dual-carriageway Greyfrairs bridge over the Wye opened in 1967. The A49 meets the A438 at the Edgar Street Roundabout . The road then swings south-eastwards out of Hereford, meeting the A465 at the Belmont Roundabout . At Ross-on-Wye the road ends, joining the A40 and B4260 at the Wilton Roundabout . The original (1923) route of the A49 was Ross-on-Wye to Bamber Bridge (near Preston ), but there have been some changes in its course. The A49 used to start on
945-478: The public. Oakly is of brick and ashlar , three storeys high with attics and a basement. Newman and Pevsner in their revised Shropshire volume of the Buildings of England , consider five rooms of note. The vestibule is a circular room dating from the younger Haycock's work, although Cockerell added a "saucer dome". The staircase hall is entirely his, as is the "exquisitely restrained" library. The conservatory
980-708: The road passes through the Capability Brown parkland of Berrington Hall . The 4-mile (6.4 km) £9m Leominster Bypass opened in November 1988. At the southern end of the Leominster Bypass the A49 passes the Cadbury's Marlbrook chocolate factory. Shortly after, the A417 route to Gloucester begins at a junction shortly before the A49 makes its way up Dinmore Hill past Queen's Wood Country Park . The south bound carriageway
1015-451: The road runs parallel to the M6 motorway, through Leyland towards Wigan . Through Ashton-in-Makerfield and Newton-le-Willows , reaching Warrington via Winwick . In June 2020, a new section of the A49 opened forming part of a link between Wigan town centre and junction 25 on the M6, the section it replaced being renumbered B5386. From junction 9 of the M62 , there is a dual-carriageway through Warrington, as far as Loushers Lane (With
1050-460: The town centre is now partly pedestrianised.) It passes over a roundabout with the A5061 situated on the River Mersey , then goes past Priestley College . It passes over the Manchester Ship Canal , Cheshire Ring Canal Walk and Bridgewater Canal . At Pewterspear there is the Owens Corner roundabout. The road has crossroads with the B5356 at Stretton and meets the A559 at junction 10 of the M56 . The road enters Cheshire West And Chester . There
1085-466: The village into two, with the church and many of the older buildings to the west and the recently redeveloped business area to the east (towards Ludlow). A bridge takes the main road over the river. The manor of Bromfield, and separately Bromfield Priory , are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, then still falling within the Saxon hundred of Culvestan , which was abolished in the reign of Henry I ; Bromfield then came within Munslow hundred. It
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1120-572: The village, on its way between Bishop's Castle and Ludlow. It passes under the A49 by a subway, an unusual feature for a village in Shropshire. [REDACTED] Media related to Bromfield, Shropshire at Wikimedia Commons A49 road The A49 is an A road in western England , which traverses the Welsh Marches region. It runs north from Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire via Hereford , Leominster , Ludlow , Shrewsbury and Whitchurch , then continues through central Cheshire to Warrington and Wigan before terminating at its junction with
1155-427: Was a large and well-populated manor. The parish at this time extended beyond the present-day boundaries, to the north (with a detached part at Halford existing into the 19th century) and the south (another detached part, near Ashford Bowdler ). In 1884 it expanded significantly by taking in a large part of the southern portion of Stanton Lacy 's parish; in 1934 another significant boundary change took place, with
1190-411: Was the creation of a second boundary with Ludford, with Ludlow now encircled by the two parishes of Ludford and Bromfield. Much of the parish, as well as the neighbouring parish of Stanton Lacy, is part of the Earl of Plymouth 's Oakly Park Estate. Oakly Park is now the Plymouth family seat. The village church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin and is a grade I listed building. There was, until
1225-419: Was the last element of the first phase of building, the breakfast and dining rooms dating from the second, when Clive, by then Windsor-Clive following his marriage to Harriet Hickman , joint heiress to the Earl of Plymouth , required more space for his expanding family. Cockerell's conservatory was demolished in the 1920s, but the remainder of the early 19th century garden and park is largely intact. Oakly Park
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