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|country = England |static_image_name = Tong church - 2007-02-10.jpg |static_image_caption = St Bartholomew's church, 10 February 2007 |coordinates = {{coord|52.663|-2.303|display=inline,title}} |official_name = Tong |population = 243 |population_ref = (2011) |civil_parish = Tong |unitary_england = Shropshire |lieutenancy_england = Shropshire |region = West Midlands |constituency_westminster= The Wrekin |post_town = SHIFNAL |postcode_district = TF11 |postcode_area = TF |dial_code = 01952 |os_grid_reference = SJ795073 }}Tong is a village and civil parish in Shropshire in England. It is near junction 3 of the M54 motorway (A41) near Albrighton. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 243.[1] HistoryThe name of the village derives from the Old English Tweonga, which means a pinched piece or spit of land. This stems from the fact that Tong sits between two tributaries of the infant River Worfe.[2] The village lies just to the north of the M54 in Shropshire. The A41 road used to run through the village, but after heavy traffic and the death of a child under a lorry, the village was bypassed in 1963.[3][4] In the 1840s, Tong was surveyed by two different railway companies. The Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton Railway was eventually driven further south to run through Ruckley and Neachley (just south of the M54), whilst the Shrewsbury and Leicester Direct Railway, which would have gone in a north-east to south-west direction between Tong and Tong Norton, was never built.[5] Escape of Charles IIIn "White-ladies," one of the "Boscobel Tracts" that describe the events of the escape of Charles II from England after the Battle of Worcester (3 September 1651), there is a statement that Charles, while sheltering at Boscobel House about two miles away, "had the pleasure of a prospect from Tong to Breewood (sic), which satisfied the eyes, and of the famous bells at Tong, which entertained the ear." The bells he heard were the bells of St. Bartholomew's.[6] During the escape Charles also spent the night of 4/5 September 1651 at Hobbal Grange in the parish of Tong as a guest of Richard Penderel.[7] Church{{main|St Bartholomew's Church, Tong}}The village is remarkable mainly for its church, St Bartholomews, outside of which is the supposed grave of Little Nell, a fictional character in Charles Dickens's book, The Old Curiosity Shop. It is thought that Charles Dickens visited Tong church when his grandmother worked at Tong Castle. The Castle (demolished in 1954) stood to the south; its site is now occupied by the M54 motorway. The 'grave' is thought to have come about because Charles Dickens's novel was serialised and shipped over to America, and as a result, Americans began coming over to England to visit scenes featured in the book. The tourists recognised the references to Tong church from the book and came to view the supposed 'grave', which of course was not there. However, a verger and village postmaster, George H. Boden (16 August 1856 - May 1943) apparently asked local people to pay for a headstone, forged an entry in the church register of burials (apparently the giveaway was that he used post office ink to do this), and charged people to see the 'grave'. The marker has been moved from time to time to make way for genuine graves. A particularly notable feature of St. Bartholomew's is the collection of memorials to the Vernon family and other proprietors of the Tong estate inside the church. St. Bartholomew's was chosen by Simon Jenkins of The Times in 1999 as one of the best 1,000 churches (out of 15,000) in England. He awarded the church, which was mostly rebuilt in 1409, three stars out of a possible five. He refers to the collection of village tombs, the masterpiece of which being that of Richard Vernon, who died in 1451. Most of the earlier ones are carved from alabaster, and are the products of the top end of the nearby late medieval Nottingham alabaster industry. GallerySee also
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11129774&c=Tong&d=16&e=62&g=6460280&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1448968890214&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=1 December 2015}} 2. ^{{cite book|last1=Ekwall|first1=Eilert|title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names|date=1960|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0-19-869103-3|page=477|edition=4}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Tong Castle Excavation|url=http://www.discoveringtong.org/castleindex.htm|website=www.discoveringtong.org|accessdate=9 November 2017}} 4. ^{{cite book|last1=Jeffery|first1=Robert|title=Discovering Tong : its history, myths and curiosities|date=2007|publisher=Robert Jeffery|location=Tong, Shifnal, Shropshire|isbn=978-0-9555089-0-5|page=133}} 5. ^{{cite book|last1=Auden|first1=J E|editor1-last=Frost|editor1-first=Joyce|title=Notes on the history of Tong from the parish books|date=2007|publisher=Arima|location=Bury St Edmonds|isbn=1-84549-010-X|page=168}} 6. ^{{cite book |last=Broadley |first=Alexander Meyrick |year=1912 |chapter=White-Ladies |title=The royal miracle; a collection of rare tracts... |location=London |publisher=S. Paul & Company |pages=[https://archive.org/stream/royalmiraclecoll00broa#page/65/mode/1up 65] |url=https://archive.org/details/royalmiraclecoll00broa}} 7. ^{{cite DNB |last=Penderel-Brodhurst |first=James George Joseph |wstitle=Penderel, Richard |volume=44|pages=289–290}} External links{{Commons category inline|Tong, Shropshire}} 2 : Villages in Shropshire|Civil parishes in Shropshire |
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