Shropshire Routes to Roots

1. Introduction and questions

This is a brief 10 question quiz on the Changes in people and landscape. The answers can all be found in the Changes in people and landscape themes.

To play the quiz, you have two choices. You can play an online, interactive version (Opens in a new window) created using Hot Potatoes. For information on how to play, read the instructions (Opens in a new window) before you start.

Alternatively, for a more accessible and printable version of the quiz, read the questions below, then find the answers on the next page.

Questions

Here are the questions, if you do not want to play the interactive version, to the quiz on Changes in people and landscape.

1. When the ice front was retreating large chunks of ice broke off on to clay beds. These melted slowly and sank into the clay. What did they create?
   • Boulder Clay
   • Kettle Holes
   • Moraines
2. Fault lines can be found all over Shropshire but where does a major one run under?
   • Wrekin
   • Shrewsbury
   • Church Stretton
3. What building in Shrewsbury was the first of its type?
   • Flax Mill
   • Rowley's House
   • Shrewsbury Castle
4. What was built by Edward Lloyad of Llanforda in 1660?
   • Victoria Rooms
   • The Coach and Dogs
   • National Provincial Bank
5. What percentage of Shropshire land is devoted to agriculture?
   • 25%
   • 5%
   • 82%
6. What use to be on the land where the factory, which Joe Hughes works in, now stands?
   • Toll House
   • Farm
   • Library
7. Who was responsible for controlling stray cattle?
   • Pinder
   • Reeve
   • Hedgelooker
8. The meadow land of the manor could be divided into 'The Lord's Meadow' and 'The common Meadow'. What was the latter then divided into?
   • Glede
   • Doles
   • Pound
9. What traces of the open field system can still be seen in some parishes?
   • Linear
   • Selions
   • Ridge and Furrow
10. What building in Hughley today is derelict and covered in Ivy?
    • Smithy
    • Mill
    • Church

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