# Little Wenlock > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Little_Wenlock > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Little_Wenlock.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Wenlock > Source revision: 1345005498 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Village in Shropshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox UK place |country = England |static_image_name = Old Quarry Plantation and Little Wenlock - geograph.org.uk - 2069988.jpg |static_image_caption = The Old Quarry Plantation and Little Wenlock, seen from the Wrekin |coordinates = {{coord|52.658|-2.524|display=inline,title}} |official_name = Little Wenlock |label_position = left |population = |population_ref = |civil_parish = Little Wenlock |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 = SJ645068 }} '''Little Wenlock''' is a village and [civil parish](/source/civil_parishes_in_England) in the [Telford and Wrekin](/source/Telford_and_Wrekin) borough in [Shropshire](/source/Shropshire), England. The population of the civil parish at the [2011 census](/source/United_Kingdom_Census_2011) was 605.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125760&c=Little+Wenlock&d=16&e=62&g=6386784&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1448708739785&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=28 November 2015}} It was mentioned in the [Domesday](/source/Domesday) Book, when it belonged to [Wenlock Priory](/source/Wenlock_Priory). Ancient habitation is attested by the discovery of two caches of Bronze Age weapons.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18076 Local history from British History Online] The village is situated two miles west of [Dawley](/source/Dawley). Nearby is the 1335-foot-high [Wrekin](/source/Wrekin), one of Shropshire's famous hills with an ancient hill fort. Part of it falls within Little Wenlock parish, while the adjoining parts fall into other parishes. The name "Wenlock" as found in [Much Wenlock](/source/Much_Wenlock) and Little Wenlock (and also Great Wenlock, a now obsolete name, but found in some historic sources{{cite book|last=Worcester |first=Joseph Emerson |year=1823 |title=A geographical dictionary or universal gazetteer, ancient and modern |volume=2 |edition=2 |publisher=Cummings & Hilliard |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vXM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA876 876]}}) is probably derived from the [Old English](/source/Old_English) ''*Wenan loca'' meaning ''"Wena's Stronghold"'' (''wéna'' being feminine and meaning ''"hope"'')''Surnames of the United Kingdom: A Concise Etymological Dictionary'', Henry Harrison, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1996, 0806301716, 9780806301716. Page.270 The town was recorded in the [Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book) as ''Wenloch''. The "Little" of the name distinguishes it from the larger settlement and market town of Much Wenlock, which is situated several miles to the south, on the other side of the [River Severn](/source/River_Severn). 11-year-old [Alice Glaston](/source/Alice_Glaston) from Little Wenlock was hanged together with two men in Much Wenlock on 13 April 1546, for an unknown crime.{{cite book|author=Butler, Sir Thomas|title=The Cambrian Journal, 49 |place=London|year=1861|pages=89|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QmQtAAAAMAAJ&q=glaston+little+wenlock&pg=PA89}}{{Cite web|url=https://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/alice-glaston/|title=Alice Glaston|date=19 March 2010}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/child.html|title=Children & juvenile executions}} She is the youngest known girl legally executed in [England](/source/England). The village features a [public house](/source/public_house) (the "Huntsman Inn"),[https://whatpub.com/pubs/TEL/208/huntsman-inn-little-wenlock WhatPub.com] The Huntsman Inn, Little Wenlock [village hall](/source/village_hall), playing field and the [Church of England](/source/Church_of_England) parish church of St Lawrence. [Charles Henry Hartshorne](/source/Charles_Henry_Hartshorne), antiquary and cleric, was curate at the church from 1828 to 1836,{{cite DNB|wstitle=Hartshorne, Charles Henry|volume=25}}{{acad|HRTN821CH|Hartshorne, Charles Henry}} and [David Cranage](/source/David_Cranage), later [Dean of Norwich](/source/Dean_of_Norwich), was curate at the church in 1897–1898.{{acad|id=CRNG885DH|name=Cranage, David Herbert Somerset}} For many years there was small scale mining in the parish, for coal, limestone and fire clay.{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol11/pp81-87|title=Little Wenlock: Economic history {{!}} British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-04-09}} ==See also== *[Listed buildings in Little Wenlock](/source/Listed_buildings_in_Little_Wenlock) ==Notes== {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category|Little Wenlock}} *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070208040328/http://www.littlewenlock.org/ Little Wenlock Parish Council]}} {{authority control}} Category:Villages in Shropshire Category:Telford and Wrekin Category:Little Wenlock --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Little Wenlock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Wenlock) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Wenlock?action=history)). 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