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Ercall Magna Parish Council is situated on the Shropshire plain at an altitude generally of 240 feet (70 metres) above sea level and is the largest rural parish (in area) in the Unitary Authority of the Borough of Telford & Wrekin.
It has an area of 3,739 Hectares (14.43 sq miles) and a perimeter of 38.84 Km’s (24.13 miles). There are approximately 700 properties in the parish and an electorate of 1350. The 2001 census showed a total population of the parish of 1682.
In the centre of the parish is the village of High Ercall, with hamlets in Cold Hatton, Ellerdine and Ellerdine Heath, Poynton and Poynton Green, Roden, Rowton and Walton.
The boundaries of the parish are with North Shropshire District Council to the north and Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council to the southwest. To the east and south there are splendid views across the Wrekin, and south Shropshire hills. It has easy access to the medieval town of Shrewsbury and the modern town of Telford.
High Ercall Parish Council, as it was than called, was set up by the Local Government Act of 1894. Thomas Buttrey was one of the first members of the parish council and at twenty-one years old must then have been the youngest parish councillor in the whole of England.
There are some interesting buildings in High Ercall, including the former Toll House, Toll Gate House, probable built in the early 1800s and may well have been a six sided hexagon structure. It is situated on the approaches to the village and has been enlarged with a rectangular extension. Tolls may well have been collected here until 1870 when the Toll Bill was abolished. Up until 2 years ago the old pig sty at the rear of the building was utilised as the village Post Office.
Ercall Hall was built in 1608 for Sir Frances Newport by Walter Hancock. It was later fortified and garrisoned in the Civil War, holding out against a lengthy siege before the royalists surrendered in 1646. The curious arcade of four arches, visible in the garden at the rear of the hall, is probably
part of the original manor house by D E Arckles, the family after
whom the village is named.
Sir Francis Newport, who in 1694 became Earl of Bradford, founded a Hospital, or Almshouses in High Ercall, for six aged persons, which still exists on the eastern side of the village.
The 11th century church of St. Michael and All Angels, with its massive 15th century tower, was damaged in the Civil War and shot marks can still be seen. It was restored in 1865 by G. E. Street. At the south corner of the churchyard, mounted on an old cross plinth, is an 18th century sundial manufactured in 1718. It gives the time not only in High Ercall, but also in Rome, Jerusalem and Plymouth, New England.
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