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{{Infobox UK place
|country                  = England
|static_image_name        = A488 at Edgebold - geograph.org.uk - 410048.jpg
|static_image_caption     = [[A488 road|A488]] passing through Edgebold
|coordinates              = {{coord|52.690|-2.802|display=inline,title}}
|official_name            = Edgebold
|label_position           = bottom
|population               =
|population_ref           =
|civil_parish             = [[Great Hanwood]]
|unitary_england          = [[Shropshire]]
|lieutenancy_england      = [[Shropshire]]
|region                   = West Midlands
|constituency_westminster = [[Shrewsbury and Atcham (UK Parliament constituency)|Shrewsbury and Atcham]]
|post_town                = SHREWSBURY
|postcode_district        = SY5
|postcode_area            = SY
|dial_code                = 01743
|os_grid_reference        = SJ457105
}}
'''Edgebold''' is a dispersed hamlet on the western edge of [[Shrewsbury]] in [[Shropshire]], England. It is on the [[A488 road|A488]] Shrewsbury to [[Bishop's Castle]] road.
==History==
It was described in 1897 as consisting chiefly of two farmhouses: Upper Edgebold and Lower Edgebold.<ref name=blakeway>{{cite book | first = J.B.| last = Blakeway| year = 1897 | title =  History of Shrewsbury Liberties| pages = 185 }}</ref> Upper Edgebold is a grade II listed building, probably early seventeenth century with later additions, and moated to the north and west.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1055682|title=Upper Edgebold Farmhouse – List Entry Summary|publisher=Historic England|access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref>
Edgebold appears in the [[Domesday Book]] as Edbaldinesham.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/shropshire2.html|title=Domesday Book Online : Shropshire E-L|access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref> This suggests the name of the original [[Saxons|Saxon]] settler could have been 'Edbalding'; with 'ing' being a Saxon termina of descent, he may have been the son of an Edbald or Ethelbald.<ref name=blakeway/>
''Thieves' Lane'', an ancient lane labelled on [[Ordnance Survey|OS]] maps as a [[Roman road]],<ref name=map25>{{cite map | year =  1957 |title = Edgebold area showing Thieves Lane and Railway Station |url = http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=52.6916&lon=-2.8177&layers=10 |scale = 1:25,000 |location = Edgebold |publisher = Ordnance Survey |access-date= 24 July 2016}}</ref>  ran through this area. Sections remain as footpaths, farm tracks and hedge-lines between Mousecroft Lane on the outskirts of Shrewsbury, through Edgebold and out to where it joins the modern day B4386 Shrewsbury to [[Montgomery, Powys|Montgomery]] road.
There was formerly a [[Brickworks|brick works]] at Edgebold, situated on the south side of the main road approximately 200m west from the junction with Nobold Lane. It appears as an active concern on the [[Ordnance Survey|OS]] map of the early 1900s.<ref>{{cite map | year =  1903 |title = Brick works at Edgebold |url = http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=52.6962&lon=-2.7900&layers=171&b=1 |scale = 6 inch |location = Edgebold |publisher = Ordnance Survey |access-date= 24 July 2016}}</ref>
Edgebold had a station (named ''Edgebold'') on the now-disused [[Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway]].<ref>{{cite book | year = 1988 | title = British Railway Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer| edition = 5|  publisher = Ian Allan Ltd.}} Map 15</ref> The station was located on the south side of the bridge by which the line crossed the main road, between Lower Edgebold and Hanwood Bank.<ref name=map25/> The same station had previously been open under the name ''Hanwood Road'', during the line's previous incarnation as the [[Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oswestry-borderland-heritage.co.uk/?page=115|title=Potts Railway (with photo of Edgebold Station)|publisher=Oswestry Borderland Heritage|access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref> On the site of that station, in 1938, was built the Hanwood Dairy plant that prepared and bottled milk for delivery until it closed in February 1990.<ref name=hanwood>{{cite book|title=Great Hanwood 'through all its changing scenes'|year=1990|publisher=Great Hanwood Jigsaw Group|page=19}}</ref>
During the [[Second World War]], two German landmines were dropped at Lower Edgebold on 20 November 1940.<ref name=hanwood/>
==Geography==
Upper Edgebold and Lower Edgebold are now divided  by the [[A5 road (Great Britain)|A5]] Shrewsbury by-pass, which opened on 11 August 1992<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/11/26/m54-still-a-vital-lifeline-30-years-after-opening/#XBLmmizlcr5W0sU2.99|title=M54 still a vital lifeline|publisher=Express and Star|access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref> and which is connected to the A488 by the ''Edgebold roundabout''. This roundabout underwent road widening in 2014;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/a5-edgebold-roundabout-junction-improvement |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120810121037/http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/a5-edgebold-roundabout-junction-improvement |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 August 2012 |title=A5 Edgebold roundabout junction improvement |publisher=Highways Agency |access-date=24 July 2016 }}</ref> further alterations to the road layout were made shortly after to ease a congestion issue.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shropshirelive.com/2014/04/11/highways-agency-make-changes-at-edgebold-roundabout/|title=Highways Agency make changes at Edgebold roundabout|publisher=shropshirelive.com|access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref>
After Edgebold, the next settlement out of Shrewsbury along the A488 is Hanwood Bank at the north end of [[Hanwood]].
==See also==
* [[Nobold]]
==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category-inline|Edgebold}}
[[Category:Hamlets in Shropshire]]
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