Waters Upton

{{Short description|Village in Shropshire, England.}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

|country = England

|static_image_name = StMichael, Waters Upton.jpg

|static_image_caption = St Michael's Church

|coordinates = {{coord|52.771|-2.544|display=inline,title}}

|official_name = Waters Upton

|label_position = left

|population = 951

|population_ref = (2011)

|civil_parish = Waters Upton

|unitary_england = Telford and Wrekin

|lieutenancy_england = Shropshire

|region = West Midlands

|constituency_westminster= The Wrekin

|post_town = TELFORD

|postcode_district = TF6

|postcode_area = TF

|dial_code = 01952

|os_grid_reference = SJ633194

}}

Waters Upton is a small village and civil parish in the Telford and Wrekin district, in the county of Shropshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 951.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11130205&c=Waters+Upton&d=16&e=62&g=6386485&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1448462865391&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=25 November 2015}}

It was recorded in the Domesday Book as "Uptone", when it was stated to be tenanted by a "Seuuard", and to have been held by a man called "Gamel" before the Conquest.Anderson, John Corbet. Shropshire: its early history and antiquities, Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p.153 At the time of the survey it contained 3 ox-teams, 4 neat-herds, 4 villeins, 1 boor and 1 radman, and a mill of 12s. 1d. annual value. In a reversal of the usual order seen in the naming of places and landowning families, it became known as Waters Upton after an early landowner, Walter Fitzjohn.

The civil parish, which had a total population of 873 at the 2001 census,[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=791510&c=waters+upton&d=16&e=15&g=396641&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1290677173101&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 Waters Upton CP], ONS also includes the villages of Great Bolas and Crudgington.

The village is just off the A442 and has a church,[http://www.achurchnearyou.com/waters-upton-st-michael/ A church near you] one pub (the Lion){{cite web|url=http://www.btinternet.com/~rmoj/watersup.htm|title=Shropshire Pub Survey|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120805071906/http://www.btinternet.com/~rmoj/watersup.htm|archivedate=5 August 2012}} Waters Upton pubs{{dead link|date=November 2012|bot=Legobot}} as well as a post office.[http://newport-shropshire.inuklocal.co.uk/PostOffices/Waters-Upton-Post-Office-16582 Waters Upton Post Office]