Colebatch is a small village and civil parish in Shropshire

Shropshire

Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

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The village lies on the A488

A488 road

The A488 is a route on the British highway network that runs from Penybont, near Llandrindod Wells, in Wales, to Shrewsbury, Shropshire, in England. Near Shrewsbury the A488 has a junction with the A5 trunk road...

, one mile south of Bishop's Castle

Bishop's Castle

Bishop's Castle is a small market town in Shropshire, England, and formerly its smallest borough. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,630. Bishop's Castle is east of the Wales-England border, about north-west of Ludlow and about south-west of Shrewsbury. To the south is Clun...

, on the road to Clun

Clun

Clun is a small town in Shropshire, England. The town is located entirely in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The 2001 census recorded 642 people living in the town...

. Also nearby, to the east, is the village of Lydbury North

Lydbury North

Lydbury North is a village and a geographically large parish in Shropshire, England. It is locally called Lydbury and there is no settlement of "Lydbury South"....

, while the hamlet of Cefn Einion

Cefn Einion

Cefn Einion is a small dispersed village in Shropshire, England. It is located two miles southwest of the village of Colebatch and between the small villages of Bryn and Mainstone.Cefn Einion in Welsh means 'Einion's Hill'....

 lies to the west.

In the village on the west side of a tributary of the River Kemp are the earthwork remains of Colebatch Castle, a small motte

Motte-and-bailey

A motte-and-bailey is a form of castle, with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade...

castle.

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