Nether Skyborry is a Grade 2 listed country house (near to Skyborry Green) and lies within the parish of Llanfair Waterdine, South Shropshire.
| Nether Skyborry | |
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 The Teme Valley near Nether Skyborry, which lies on the opposite (north-eastern) side of the valley. | |
  Nether Skyborry Location within Shropshire | |
| OS grid reference | SO272740 |
| Civil parish | |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | KNIGHTON |
| Postcode district | LD7 |
| Dialling code | 01547 |
| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Shropshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Background
editThe house has ancient origins; the original, smaller house was built on part of the footprint of a 16th-century monastic building, part of which still remains. Nether Skyborry was impressively extended in the late 18th/early 19th century and once had seven bedrooms but, over the years, these have been reduced to a more manageable number. Nevertheless, the house still boasts no less than 13 chimneys! There are four other houses close by (including the converted stables and coach house of Nether Skyborry) forming a small hamlet. The Welsh border lies very close – the River Teme runs to the south of the hamlet. The Welsh border is just on the other side of the river but no longer follows the exact course of the river.
The name "Skyborry" is an anglicisation of the Welsh word for barn, ysgubor.[1] "Nether" is English and means near or under.[2] The hamlet is downstream of the other hamlet with the Skyborry place name (Skyborry Green – less than 1 mile (2 km) northwest.
Nether Skyborry lies 190–210 metres (620–690 ft) above sea level, on the northern (English) slope of the Teme valley.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Mark Nodine. "Welsh/English translation". Archived from the original on 25 October 2007. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
- ^ "Wiktionary". Retrieved 1 February 2008.
External links
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Media related to Nether Skyborry at Wikimedia Commons
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