Coton, Shropshire
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Coton is the name of two hamlets in the English
county of Shropshire
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county of Shropshire
Shropshire
Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...
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- One Coton lies near the road from WhitchurchWhitchurch, ShropshireWhitchurch is a market town in Shropshire, England on the border between England and Wales. It is the oldest continuously inhabited town in Shropshire. According to the 2001 Census, the population of the town is 8,673, with a more recent estimate putting the population of the town at 8,934...
to WemWemWem is a small market town in Shropshire, England. It is the administrative centre for the northern area committee of Shropshire Council, which has its headquarters at Edinburgh House in the centre of Wem. Wem railway station is on the Shrewsbury to Crewe railway line...
about one mile southeast of HollinwoodHollinwood, ShropshireHollinwood is a small village in Shropshire, England.Hollinwood lies to the south of the town of Whitchurch and is about one mile from the border with Wales.- External links :...
. Coton Hall, home of Viscount Hill, is an important English heritage site. In the early nineteenth century it belonged to Admiral George Bowen. It eventually passed to the Honyman family; Admiral Bowen's youngest daughter, Elizabeth Essex Bowen, married Sir Ord John Honyman, Bt. Their sons, Sir George Essex Bowen (d. 1875) and Rev. Sir William Macdonald Honyman (d. 1911) lived there in succession but they both died without issue and from Rev. Sir William it passed to his niece, Elizabeth Hester Georgina Marie Ord Bearcroft, daughter of Rev. Thomas Bearcroft of Fitz, Salop and his wife Mary Hester Lilly Rosalie Honyman, sister of Sir George and Rev. Sir William. Elizabeth married Captain Robert Charles Dighton Wilson in 1891 and they adopted the additional surname of MacQueen in 1912 when Elizabeth inherited entailed estates in Scotland. The Wilson-MacQueens sold Coton Hall to Sir Alexander Maguire, the match manufacturer (qv), who was living there by 1920. He then sold it to Viscount Hill in 1924. (Ref. 'The History of the Longcroft Family' by James Phillips-Evans) - A second hamletHamlet (place)A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
named Coton is located northeast of AlveleyAlveleyAlveley is a village and civil parish in south east Shropshire, England, along the Severn Valley on the east side of the River Severn. It has appeared in records dating back to AD50....
and was associated with the manor Coton Hall. The ancestors of General Robert E. LeeRobert E. LeeRobert Edward Lee was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War....
left Coton near Alveley during the 17th century. At that time the Lee family had been there for some six centuries, and another branch of the Lee family remained in Coton until 1821.