27. The 19th century

 the Victorians                                                                              

Thomas Telford 

In 1801 Sir William Pulteney with Thomas Telford and others obtained a lease to extract coal and limestone from various local sites. To carry limestone from the top of Wenlock Edge Thomas Telford constructed a cableway that lowered trucks down a plateway to Limekilns, constructed on the bend of the road where it begins to ascend Harley Bank. It was called the Jenny Wind Cableway and I have been told that in places some of the original rails still exist although buried in the undergrowth.

Trevor G Hill   Note in Village Life June 2020

The Victorian period was the time when the church was almost completely rebuilt and the Village School, now the Village Hall was built.

There were a few additions to the village in this period, of note was Castlehill House on the Domas Road which was built in 1840 on the site of an earlier house, held by Thomas Taylor in 1578. It was sold to Richard Newport in 1630. It was owned by the Corfield family before 1808 as John Corfield built the crenellated brick tower in 1791 from which the name is derived. The tower still exists.

Since 1842 there has been Grove Farm (1923) the New Parsonage now Cheriton and the Village School (1859) now the Village Hall and The School House. The Village Hall was partly rebuilt in 2010 with a substantial Heritage Lottery Grant.