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Cross Houses
Cross Houses is a village in Shropshire, England, the largest village in the Parish of Berrington. It is located on the A458 road and is 4 miles south east of Shrewsbury.
Cross Houses is also the name of a hamlet south-west of Bridgnorth.
It was once served by Berrington railway station, which despite the name was much closer to Cross Houses than to its namesake.
The village has a Shop/Post Office/Petrol Station and also a pub "The Bell". The village also used to be home to a second pub "The Fox" which has since been converted into a single dwelling and a second house built in the former car park.
Over the decades, Cross Houses has expanded in phases. Properties in Lower Cross were originally built as council houses in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Further social housing was added on the adjacent Noel Hill Road in the 1960s. There was little substantial change in the 1970s and 1980s, before the first phase of homes by Shrewsbury-based developer Fletcher Homes were completed in the 1990s on land immediately to the south of the A458.
The turn of the Millennium saw substantial further developments. The Chestnuts, providing 2, 3, 4 and 5 bedroom homes, was built on the site of the former Cross Houses Hospital in the early to mid 2000s. The Chestnuts development was located on the site of the old workhouse and incorporated renovation of some of the old buildings.
During 2016 work started by Fletcher Homes on a new development, known as Berrington Meadows, located on the land opposite the village shop. This development also features a selection of 3 and 4 bedroom properties. As part of this development a new roundabout was built in 2019.
Banbury Developments, a company associated with Fletcher Homes, also owns the field to the east of the existing Berrington Meadows development, where further expansion of the village is likely to take place.
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Cross Houses
Cross Houses is a village in Shropshire, England, the largest village in the Parish of Berrington. It is located on the A458 road and is 4 miles south east of Shrewsbury.
Cross Houses is also the name of a hamlet south-west of Bridgnorth.
It was once served by Berrington railway station, which despite the name was much closer to Cross Houses than to its namesake.
The village has a Shop/Post Office/Petrol Station and also a pub "The Bell". The village also used to be home to a second pub "The Fox" which has since been converted into a single dwelling and a second house built in the former car park.
Over the decades, Cross Houses has expanded in phases. Properties in Lower Cross were originally built as council houses in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Further social housing was added on the adjacent Noel Hill Road in the 1960s. There was little substantial change in the 1970s and 1980s, before the first phase of homes by Shrewsbury-based developer Fletcher Homes were completed in the 1990s on land immediately to the south of the A458.
The turn of the Millennium saw substantial further developments. The Chestnuts, providing 2, 3, 4 and 5 bedroom homes, was built on the site of the former Cross Houses Hospital in the early to mid 2000s. The Chestnuts development was located on the site of the old workhouse and incorporated renovation of some of the old buildings.
During 2016 work started by Fletcher Homes on a new development, known as Berrington Meadows, located on the land opposite the village shop. This development also features a selection of 3 and 4 bedroom properties. As part of this development a new roundabout was built in 2019.
Banbury Developments, a company associated with Fletcher Homes, also owns the field to the east of the existing Berrington Meadows development, where further expansion of the village is likely to take place.
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