Onibury

The toponym "Onibury" is derived from the Old English for "fortified place on the River Onny". "Onny" means "river on whose banks ash trees grew", from the Welsh "on" meaning ashes.{{citation |last=Ekwall |first=Eilert |author-link=Eilert Ekwall |title=Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names |orig-year=1947 |year=1960 |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0198691033 |page=350}}

Onibury is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Aneberie. It had 15 households, making it a fairly medium-sized settlement for the time, and a priest.{{cite book |title=The Parish Church of St. Michael, Onibury, Shropshire |publisher=St Michael's, Onibury |type=church guide |date=2008}} The manor formed part of the Saxon hundred of Culvestan.[http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO4579/onibury Open Domesday] Onibury

Onibury came to be in the lower division of the hundred of Munslow, following the amalgamation of Culvestan and Patton hundreds in the reign of Henry I (1100-1139).

File:Ceiling at St Michael, Onibury - geograph.org.uk - 1443254.jpg

The Church of England parish church of Saint Michael & All Angels has a Norman (or possibly Saxon) chancel arch but much of the present building dates from the 14th century. The nave has a queen post roof, box pews and a west gallery. Lancet windows illuminate the 12th-century chancel, which features a walled-up priest's door. The 16th-century pulpit, late perpendicular with Jacobean additions, has linenfold panelling. St. Michael's has several 17th-century monuments. St. Michael's was restored under the direction of the Arts and Crafts architect Detmar Blow (1867–1939). The church is a Grade II* listed building.{{National Heritage List for England| num=1269840 |desc=Church of St Michael |grade=II* |accessdate=21 June 2017}}

The tower has a ring of four bells. John of Gloucester cast the second and third bells in about 1350.{{cite web |url= http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Onibury&DoveID=ONIBURY |title=Onibury S Michael & All Angels |work=Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers |publisher=Central Council of Church Bell Ringers |last=Dawson |first=George |access-date=30 March 2012}} Henry Clibury of Wellington{{cite web |url= http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/founders.php |title=Bell Founders |work=Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers |publisher=Central Council of Church Bell Ringers |author=Dovemaster |date=25 June 2010 |access-date=30 March 2012}} cast the tenor bell in 1676 and John Rudhall of Gloucester cast the treble bell in 1824. For technical reasons the bells are currently unringable.

In the churchyard is the parish's war memorial, initially erected after World War I, to the dead of both World Wars in the form of a stone cross.{{cite book|title=Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance|year=2013|publisher=YouCaxton|page=130|isbn=978-1-909644-11-3}}

St. Michael's is one of 17 churches in the Benefice of the Ludlow Team Ministry.{{cite web |url= http://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice.php?B=18/177CL |title=Benefice of the Ludlow Team Ministry |work=A Church Near You |author=Archbishops' Council |publisher=Church of England |access-date=30 March 2012}}

John Derby Allcroft was Lord of the Manor and Patron of Saint Michael & All Angels church during the 19th century.{{cite book |url=http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/w-r-william-retlaw-williams/the-parliamentary-history-of-the-county-of-worcester--including-the-city-of-wor-hci/page-12-the-parliamentary-history-of-the-county-of-worcester--including-the-city-of-wor-hci.shtml |first=William Retlaw |last=Williams |title=The parliamentary history of the county of Worcester |date=1897 |publisher=Jakeman and Carver |location=Hereford |access-date=21 June 2017}}

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Onibury had a railway station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway.{{cite web|url=http://shropshirehistory.com/railways/stations.htm|title=Stations|work=Shropshire History|access-date=16 March 2017}}

File:Onibury station remins, with a southbound local goods train geograph-2575043-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg in 1949]]

The A49 road passes through the village and there is a level crossing, where there is still a signal box.

National Cycle Network route 44 passes through, via the country lanes, en route between Ludlow and Bishop's Castle.

• Stokesay Castle
• Stokesay Court

• Listed buildings in Onibury

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• {{cite book |editor1-last=Lewis |editor1-first=Samuel |editor1-link=Samuel Lewis (publisher) |title=A Topographical Dictionary of England |edition=Seventh |orig-year=1848 |year=1931 |location=London |publisher=Samuel Lewis |pages=476–479 |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51193}}
• [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SAL/Onibury/index.html The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1868]
• [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/271551 Onibury railway station]

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