Peplow is a small dispersed village 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

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. It is part of the civil parish of Hodnet, a larger village to the north. The hamlets

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 of Bowling Green and Radmoor are both in the village's vicinity.

It lies in a rural area on the A442 road

A442 road

The A442 is a main road which passes through the counties of Worcestershire and Shropshire, in the West Midlands region of England.-Route:From Droitwich in Worcestershire it runs towards Kidderminster where it meets the A449 from Worcester...

, between Crudgington

Crudgington

Crudgington is a village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is situated in the civil parish of Waters Upton, a village to the north, and is 7 miles north-west of Telford...

 and Hodnet, with Ollerton

Ollerton, Shropshire

Ollerton is a small village, located in the parish of Stoke upon Tern in Shropshire, England.Ollerton is located in a rural area approximately mid way between the towns of Telford and Market Drayton; immediately to the west is the hamlet of Peplow, while Child's Ercall lies to the east.- External...

 immediately to the east. The village is best known for Peplow Hall

Peplow Hall

Peplow Hall is a privately owned 18th century country house at Peplow, near Hodnet, Shropshire. It is the seat of Lord Newborough and is a Grade II* listed building.The manor of Peplow was owned in the 17th century by Hugh Pigot...

, an 18th century manor house

Manor house

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, and Peplow Mill. The mill contains an early water turbine dating from 1820 and spans the River Tern

River Tern

The River Tern is a river in Shropshire, England. It rises north-east of Market Drayton in the north of the county. The source of the Tern is considered to be the lake in the grounds of Maer Hall, Staffordshire...

.

There is a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

club called Hodnet and Peplow CC, and the club's badge is that of a gold lion (from the gates of Hodnet Hall), lying beneath a green beech tree (representing the beech trees lining the driveway of Peplow Hall). Its first eleven play in the Rollinson Smith Shropshire Cricket League Division 3.

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