# Onibury > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Onibury > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Onibury.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onibury > Source revision: 1345338981 > 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 |official_name= Onibury |coordinates = {{coord|52.407|-2.803|display=inline,title}} |os_grid_reference= SO453791 |static_image_name= Onibury - geograph.org.uk - 148304.jpg |static_image_caption= St. Michael and All Angels parish church |population= 297 |population_ref= ([2011 census](/source/United_Kingdom_Census_2011)){{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127262&c=SY7+0PG&d=16&e=62&g=6461119&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1448290908047&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=23 November 2015|archive-date=25 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125130352/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127262&c=SY7+0PG&d=16&e=62&g=6461119&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1448290908047&enc=1|url-status=dead}} |civil_parish= Onibury |unitary_england= [Shropshire](/source/Shropshire_Council) |lieutenancy_england= [Shropshire](/source/Shropshire) |region= West Midlands |country= England |constituency_westminster= [Ludlow](/source/Ludlow_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) |post_town= [Ludlow](/source/Ludlow) |postcode_district= SY7 |postcode_area= SY |dial_code= 01584 |website= }} '''Onibury''' is a village and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parishes_in_England) on the [River Onny](/source/River_Onny) in southern [Shropshire](/source/Shropshire), about {{convert|4|mi}} northwest of the [market town](/source/market_town) of [Ludlow](/source/Ludlow). The parish includes the hamlets of Walton and Wootton and was extended in 1967 to include parts from [Clungunford](/source/Clungunford) and [Stokesay](/source/Stokesay).[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10364772 Vision of Britain] Onibury CP It borders the parishes of Clungunford, Stokesay (now part of [Craven Arms](/source/Craven_Arms) parish), [Bromfield](/source/Bromfield%2C_Shropshire), [Culmington](/source/Culmington) and [Stanton Lacy](/source/Stanton_Lacy). The [country houses](/source/English_country_house) of [Ferney Hall](/source/Ferney_Hall) and [Stokesay Court](/source/Stokesay_Court) are in the parish. ==History== ===Toponym=== The [toponym](/source/Toponymy) "Onibury" is derived from the [Old English](/source/Old_English) for "fortified place on the River Onny". "Onny" means "river on whose banks ash trees grew", from the [Welsh](/source/Welsh_language) "on" meaning ashes.{{citation |last=Ekwall |first=Eilert |author-link=Eilert Ekwall |title=Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names |orig-year=1947 |year=1960 |location=Oxford |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |isbn=0198691033 |page=350}} ===Domesday Book=== Onibury is recorded in the [Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book) of 1086 as ''Aneberie''. It had 15 households, making it a fairly medium-sized settlement for the time, and a priest.{{cite book |title=The Parish Church of St. Michael, Onibury, Shropshire |publisher=St Michael's, Onibury |type=church guide |date=2008}} The [manor](/source/Manorialism) formed part of the Saxon [hundred](/source/hundred_(county_division)) of [Culvestan](/source/Culvestan).[http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO4579/onibury Open Domesday] Onibury ===Hundred=== Onibury came to be in the lower division of the hundred of [Munslow](/source/Munslow_(hundred)), following the amalgamation of Culvestan and Patton hundreds in the reign of [Henry I](/source/Henry_I_of_England) (1100–1139). ==Parish church== thumb|left|Queen post roof of St. Michael's nave The [Church of England parish church](/source/Church_of_England_parish_church) of [Saint Michael](/source/Michael_(archangel)) & All Angels has a [Norman](/source/Norman_architecture) (or possibly [Saxon](/source/Anglo-Saxon_architecture)) [chancel](/source/chancel) arch but much of the present building dates from the 14th century. The [nave](/source/nave) has a [queen post](/source/King_post) roof, [box pew](/source/box_pew)s and a [west gallery](/source/West_gallery_music). Lancet windows illuminate the 12th-century [chancel](/source/chancel), which features a walled-up priest's door. The 16th-century [pulpit](/source/pulpit), late perpendicular with Jacobean additions, has [linenfold](/source/linenfold) panelling. St. Michael's has several 17th-century [monuments](/source/English_church_monuments). St. Michael's was restored under the direction of the [Arts and Crafts](/source/Arts_and_Crafts_movement) architect [Detmar Blow](/source/Detmar_Blow) (1867–1939). The church is a [Grade II* listed building](/source/Listed_building).{{National Heritage List for England| num=1269840 |desc=Church of St Michael |grade=II* |accessdate=21 June 2017}} The tower has a [ring](/source/Change_ringing) of four bells. John of Gloucester cast the second and third bells in about 1350.{{cite web |url= http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Onibury&DoveID=ONIBURY |title=Onibury S Michael & All Angels |work=[Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers](/source/Dove's_Guide_for_Church_Bell_Ringers) |publisher=[Central Council of Church Bell Ringers](/source/Central_Council_of_Church_Bell_Ringers) |last=Dawson |first=George |access-date=30 March 2012}} Henry Clibury of [Wellington](/source/Wellington%2C_Shropshire){{cite web |url= http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/founders.php |title=Bell Founders |work=[Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers](/source/Dove's_Guide_for_Church_Bell_Ringers) |publisher=[Central Council of Church Bell Ringers](/source/Central_Council_of_Church_Bell_Ringers) |author=Dovemaster |date=25 June 2010 |access-date=30 March 2012}} cast the tenor bell in 1676 and John [Rudhall of Gloucester](/source/Rudhall_of_Gloucester) cast the treble bell in 1824. For technical reasons the bells are currently unringable. In the churchyard is the parish's war memorial, initially erected after [World War I](/source/World_War_I), to the dead of both World Wars in the form of a stone cross.{{cite book|title=Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance|year=2013|publisher=YouCaxton|page=130|isbn=978-1-909644-11-3}} St. Michael's is one of 17 churches in the [Benefice](/source/Benefice) of the Ludlow Team Ministry.{{cite web |url= http://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice.php?B=18/177CL |title=Benefice of the Ludlow Team Ministry |work=A Church Near You |author=Archbishops' Council |publisher=[Church of England](/source/Church_of_England) |access-date=30 March 2012}} [John Derby Allcroft](/source/John_Derby_Allcroft) was Lord of the Manor and Patron of Saint Michael & All Angels church during the 19th century.{{cite book |url=http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/w-r-william-retlaw-williams/the-parliamentary-history-of-the-county-of-worcester--including-the-city-of-wor-hci/page-12-the-parliamentary-history-of-the-county-of-worcester--including-the-city-of-wor-hci.shtml |first=William Retlaw |last=Williams |title=The parliamentary history of the county of Worcester |date=1897 |publisher=Jakeman and Carver |location=Hereford |access-date=21 June 2017}} ==Transport== thumb|The Apple Tree "bar & bistro" Onibury had a railway station on the [Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway](/source/Shrewsbury_and_Hereford_Railway).{{cite web|url=http://shropshirehistory.com/railways/stations.htm|title=Stations|work=Shropshire History|access-date=16 March 2017|archive-date=6 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906133752/http://shropshirehistory.com/railways/stations.htm|url-status=dead}} [[File:Onibury station remins, with a southbound local goods train geograph-2575043-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|thumb|right|[Onibury railway station](/source/Onibury_railway_station) in 1949]] The [A49 road](/source/A49_road) passes through the village and there is a level crossing, where there is still a signal box. [National Cycle Network](/source/National_Cycle_Network) [route 44](/source/National_Cycle_Route_44) passes through, via the country lanes, en route between Ludlow and [Bishop's Castle](/source/Bishop's_Castle). ==Places near Onibury== *[Stokesay Castle](/source/Stokesay_Castle) *[Stokesay Court](/source/Stokesay_Court) ==See also== *[Listed buildings in Onibury](/source/Listed_buildings_in_Onibury) ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category|Onibury}} *{{cite book |editor1-last=Lewis |editor1-first=Samuel |editor1-link=Samuel Lewis (publisher) |title=A Topographical Dictionary of England |edition=Seventh |orig-year=1848 |year=1931 |location=London |publisher=[Samuel Lewis](/source/Samuel_Lewis_(publisher)) |pages=476–479 |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51193}} *[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SAL/Onibury/index.html ''The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland'', 1868] *[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/271551 Onibury railway station] {{shropshire}} {{authority control}} Category:Civil parishes in Shropshire Category:Villages in Shropshire --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Onibury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onibury) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onibury?action=history)). 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