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To the southeast is the beautiful half-timbered Pitchford Hall dating from the 16th century with a curious tree-house in the grounds.
The Cound Brook flows through the village on its way from the Stretton Hills to a confluence with the River Severn
Condover contains a higher than normal proportion of Listed buildings and over half of the village has been classified as a conservation area since 1976. The more than forty listed structures in Condover range from six separate early cruck-framed buildings and many black-and-white timbered cottages to the present-day Vicarage and several funerary monuments in the churchyard. Of the early half-timbered houses, the most impressive are Church House, the Old School House and the Small House that is now known as Condover Court.
The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Conendovre, in the Anglo-Saxon era between 613 and 1017 the village was the principal settlement in the Hundred of Condover, an administrative area that was large enough to sustain about 100 households. By the 11th century Condover was a royal manor of King Edward the Confessor. It formed a significant part of the great Royal forest known as The Long Forest that stretched
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- Landmark