# Isombridge

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{{Short description|Hamlet in Shropshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
|country                 = England
|static_image_name       = Out building at Isombridge farm - geograph.org.uk - 810020.jpg
|static_image_caption    = 
|coordinates             = {{coord|52.720|-2.577|display=inline,title}}
|official_name           = Isombridge
|label_position          = top
|population              = 
|population_ref          = 
|civil_parish            = [Rodington](/source/Rodington)
|unitary_england         = [Telford and Wrekin](/source/Telford_and_Wrekin)
|lieutenancy_england     = [Shropshire](/source/Shropshire)
|region                  = West Midlands
|constituency_westminster= [The Wrekin](/source/The_Wrekin_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
|post_town               = TELFORD
|postcode_district       = TF6
|postcode_area           = TF
|dial_code               = 01952
|os_grid_reference       = SJ609138
}}

'''Isombridge''' is a small hamlet in rural [Shropshire](/source/Shropshire). It lies on the border of the [civil parish](/source/civil_parish)es of [Wrockwardine](/source/Wrockwardine) and [Rodington](/source/Rodington), north of Wrockwardine village, near the [River Tern](/source/River_Tern). Population details are included under Rodington. Immediately to the north is another small hamlet, '''Marsh Green''', which was formerly on the [Shrewsbury Canal](/source/Shrewsbury_Canal) until the latter's closure.

It was recorded as a [manor](/source/manorialism) in the [Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book), where its name was written ''Asnebruge''. This was derived from the [Old English](/source/Old_English) ''esne'', "servant", and ''bryce'', "bridge": "the bridge of the servants", presumably referring to a bridge over the Tern.<ref name=gelling>Gelling and Foxall, ''The Place-Names of Shropshire'' v. 1, English Place-Name Society, 1990, p.164</ref> The manor, which had been held by a man named Ulf in Saxon times, was later held by [Ralph de Mortimer](/source/Ralph_de_Mortimer): he subsequently forfeited it and it passed to the lords of [Bolas](/source/Great_Bolas).<ref name=anderson156>Anderson, John Corbet. ''Shropshire: its early history and antiquities'', 1864, p.156</ref>

The area later formed a [township](/source/township_(England)) of the parish of [High Ercall](/source/High_Ercall): there was a small chapel here, now long since disappeared.

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