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Hyssington Castle
The story
History of Hyssington Castle
Hyssington (Welsh: Isatyn) is a parish in the South-Eastern corner of the historic county of Montgomeryshire in Wales and borders the county of Shropshire in England.
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- Coordinates
- 52.544, -3.012
In depth
The fuller history
Key dates
- 1875The building is a long single-chambered church with a west bell hanging, rebuilt in 1875 by Thomas Nicholson, the Hereford Diocesan architect.
- 1884In 1884 Mucklewick became part of the parish of Shelve in Shropshire while Hyssington remained in Montgomeryshire.
- 1914When the Welsh Church Act 1914 had been passed to disestablish the Church in Wales, Hyssington with Snead parish straddled the England-Wales border.
- 2008However the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust did excavate several small quarry depressions in 2008, but only found evidence of fairly recent disturbance.
Historical summary drawn from Wikipedia. Read the full article.
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