Nether Skyborry Explained

Country:England
Static Image Name:Teme Valley cottage in the morning mist - geograph.org.uk - 1528008.jpg
Static Image Caption:The Teme Valley near Nether Skyborry, which lies on the opposite (north-eastern) side of the valley.
Coordinates:52.359°N -3.068°W
Official Name:Nether Skyborry
Label Position:top
Civil Parish:Llanfair Waterdine
Unitary England:Shropshire
Lieutenancy England:Shropshire
Region:West Midlands
Constituency Westminster:Ludlow
Post Town:KNIGHTON
Postcode District:LD7
Postcode Area:LD
Dial Code:01547
Os Grid Reference:SO272740

Nether Skyborry is a Grade 2 listed country house (near to Skyborry Green) and lies within the parish of Llanfair Waterdine, South Shropshire.

Background

The house has ancient origins; the original, smaller house was built on part of the footprint of a 16th-century monastic building, part of which still remains. Nether Skyborry was impressively extended in the late 18th/early 19th century and once had seven bedrooms but, over the years, these have been reduced to a more manageable number. Nevertheless, the house still boasts no less than 13 chimneys!There are four other houses close by (including the converted stables and coach house of Nether Skyborry) forming a small hamlet. The Welsh border lies very close – the River Teme runs to the south of the hamlet. The Welsh border is just on the other side of the river but no longer follows the exact course of the river.

The name "Skyborry" is an anglicisation of the Welsh word for barn, ysgubor.[1] "Nether" is English and means near or under.[2] The hamlet is downstream of the other hamlet with the Skyborry place name (Skyborry Green – less than 1miles northwest.

Nether Skyborry lies 190– above sea level, on the northern (English) slope of the Teme valley.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mark Nodine. Welsh/English translation. 11 March 2008. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071025095420/http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/LexiconForms.html. 25 October 2007.
  2. Web site: Wiktionary. 1 February 2008.