Wrockwardine

Picture here in Wrockwardine back garden. Elderley lady; Dorothy le Strange (my Great-Aunt)

When our friends in Wrockwardine called us round we were in for a surprise.

The le Strange Family had come full circle from their medieval days when my Grandmother, Viola le Strange who married a Shropshire born vicar of the name George Astbury Meakin.

During WW2 they evacuated from Norfolk for the Countryside of Shropshire. He returned to his Shropshire roots, and became Vicar of Wrockwardine. They lived in the Vicarage across the road from St. Peter’s Church - where unknowingly Viola’s le Strange relative had lived - meters away in the 13th century.

The family friends called upon her daughter, Mary in the 1990’s announcing their back garden dig - The le Strange Manor House referred to in The le Strange Records (more to come soon…)