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Condover Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Condover

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Condover history

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Medieval beginnings

In the Anglo-Saxon era between 613 and 1017 the village was the principal settlement in the Hundred of Condover. By the 11th century Condover was a royal manor of King Edward the Confessor. It formed a significant part of the Long Forest, which stretched almost the full length of South Shropshire.

Later history

Condover manor lands were purchased in 1586 by Chief Justice Thomas Owen, a Member of Parliament and Recorder of Shrewsbury. Owen began the building of the current Condover Hall but died before its completion. The Royal manor passed in and out of Crown tenure until Elizabeth I when it was sold to the Vynar family.

World War Two

RAF Condover was opened in August 1942 and was used as a fighter, bomber and a training base during the Second World War. Many of the original buildings including the control tower still stand although most of the three concrete runways have been removed. Condover Hall was commandeered as the station’s officers’ mess during its operational years. It was the site of a Prisoner of War (POW) camp for German airmen.

Residential school

The Elizabethan manor house in Condover, Condover Hall, was sold to and operated by the RNIB as the residential Condover hall School for the Blind until 2005. Sold to the private Priory Educational Group, the hall later became home to Condover Horizon School for autistic children.

Condover in the media

The lanes, footpaths and woodlands around Condover and Bomere Pool featured in several of the medieval detective novels about Brother Cadfael by novelist Ellis Peters. In 1988 the BBC filmed a three-part documentary about the RNIB residential school at Condover Hall.

Condover geography / climate

The village lies just four miles south of Shrewsbury and is separated from the county town by the main A5 trunk road. To the west lies the Pre-Cambrian Lyth Hill, with Sharpstone Hill standing to the north, with the latter now mostly a major sandstone quarry.

Waterway

The village of Condover is in a low-lying area, towards the southern end of the Shropshire-Severn plain. The gently undulating land in the vicinity is bisected by Cound Brook, an important local tributary of the River Severn.

Geology

Condover stands in the lee of an outcropping spur, consisting of a Pre-Cambrian limestone and sandstone sedimentary rock extension of the Longmyndian range. The sediments were laid down under a vast warm ocean, surrounded by volcanoes that were ground down by later Ice Age glaciers.

Sandstone quarrying and gravel sink holes

The bones of a woolly mammoth were discovered in 1986 near Bomere Pool, Shropshire. The skeleton is one of the most complete mammoth skeletons ever to be found in the UK. It is dated at 14,000 years old, later than the animals had been previously thought to survive in Europe.

You can visit Condover places with Walkfo Condover to hear history at Condover’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Condover has 18 places to visit in our interactive Condover map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Condover, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Condover places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Condover & the surrounding areas.

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18 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Best Condover places to visit

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Condover has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Condover’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Condover’s information audio spots:

Bomere Pool Bomere Pool lies between Bayston Hill and Condover in the county of Shropshire, England, 4.7 miles (7.5 kilometres) south of the county town of Shrewsbury. The pool is classified as a Site of Special Scientific Interest as the most oligotrophic (nutrient poor) body of water.

Pitchford Hall Pitchford Hall is a large Grade I listed Tudor country house in the village of Pitchford, Shropshire, 6 miles south east of Shrewsbury. It was built c.1560 on the site of a medieval building and has been modified several times since. It is a timber framed two-storey building with rendered red sandstone panels, a stone roof and brick chimneys.

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