Shropshire Routes to Roots

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Here are the answers, with explanations, to the quiz on the Changes in people and landscape.

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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?
   • This is the wrong answer. When the ice sheets advanced, they ground the earth away, pushing huge amounts of soil and rock in front and to the side of them. These were piles of "Boulder Clay".
   • Well Done, this is the correct answer. These "Kettle Holes" soon filled with water. They are very evident in the lakes of the Ellesmere area.
   • This is the wrong answer. When the ice sheets advanced, they ground the earth away, pushing huge amounts of soil and rock in front and to the side of them. These piles were known as "Moraines".
2. Fault lines can be found all over Shropshire but where does a major one run under?
   • This is the wrong answer. The Wrekin is volanic rock.
   • This is the wrong answer. Shrewsbury experienced an earthquake on the 2nd April 1990 which measured 5.4 on the Richter Scale.
   • Well Done, this is the correct answer. Faults can be seen most easily where there has been some quarrying. You can recognise it by the sudden change in the continuity of the rock.
3. What building in Shrewsbury was the first of its type?
   • Well Done, this is the correct answer. The Flax Mill was the first iron-framed building in the world.
   • This is the wrong answer. This is a reminder of the important of wool trade for Shrewsbury in the Tidor period.
   • This is the wrong answer. This was built at the neck of land between the wwo curves in the river severn. It was built to defend the town.
4. What was built by Edward Lloyd of Llanforda in 1660?
   • This is the wrong answer. It was built in 1864 and was the venue for concerts, functions and dances.
   • Well Done, this is the correct answer. He used the hotel for stabling the dog cart and this is where it gets its name from.
   • This is the wrong answer. It was built in 1905.
5. What percentage of Shropshire land is devoted to agriculture?
   • This is the wrong answer. This is the percentage of the workforce which is involved in agriculture.
   • This is the wrong answer. This is the percentage of England's potatoes which are grown in Shropshire.
   • Well Done, this is the correct answer. There are about 6,000 farms in Shropshire.
6. What use to be on the land where the factory, which Joe Hughes works in, now stands?
   • This is the wrong answer. Joe was trying to find out whether there use to be a Toll House on the area called Toll Bar Gardens.
   • Well Done, this is the correct answer. Joe's interest in finding out about the local area was sparked by a letter from a lady who use to work at the farm.
   • This is the wrong answer. This is one of the places Joe went to find out more about the local area.
7. Who was responsible for controlling stray cattle?
   • Well Done, this is the correct answer. It is believed that Little boy Blue was a Pinder's young assistant.
   • This is the wrong answer. The Reeve was appointed by the manor court and was in control of cropping the fields.
   • This is the wrong answer. The control of the common-land was undertaken for the lord by an official known by this name.
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?
   • This is the wrong answer. Glede is land assigned to the clergyman of a parish.
   • Well Done, this is the correct answer. This were similar ti the strips in the open-field, and were also allocated among the Lord's tenants.
   • This is the wrong answer. The Pound was an area where the stray cattle were kept until compensation had been paid for any damage sustained.
9. What traces of the open field system can still be seen in some parishes?
   • This is the wrong answer. This is where a settlement is strung out along a road, river or canal.
   • This is the wrong answer. This is a cultivated strip of land in an agriculture field.
   • Well Done, this is the correct answer. These are remnants of the strips used in the open field system.
10. What building in Hughley today is derelict and covered in Ivy?
    • Well Done, this is the correct answer. Remains of the two brick furnaces and a set of bellows are still inside the building.
    • This is the wrong answer. Today only parts of the mill exist.
    • This is the wrong answer. The church in Hughley is perhaps best known through A.E. Housman's poem "The vane on Hughley Steeple". The church though did not have steeple but a bell tower instead.

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