https://wikishire.co.uk/w/index.php?title=New_Invention,_Shropshire&feed=atom&action=historyNew Invention, Shropshire - Revision history2024-03-28T16:09:25ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.25.5https://wikishire.co.uk/w/index.php?title=New_Invention,_Shropshire&diff=24852&oldid=prevRB at 21:12, 9 October 20142014-10-09T21:12:11Z<p></p>
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'''New Invention''' is a hamlet in [[Shropshire]], in the very southwest of the county, amongst the hills that rise into the [[Clun Forest]]. New Invention sits on the A488 between [[Clun]] and [[Knighton, Radnorshire|Knighton]] and is little more than four houses around a cross-roads and a neighbouring farm called The Weir, known in history as the Wear or Ware.<br />
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Of the four houses, one was once a blacksmith's shop, one a pub called the ''Stag's Head'', and one a Methodist chapel built in 1874.<br />
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The village served as one of many local locations for the film ''Gone to Earth'' (released 1950), directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.<ref>{{IMDb locations|tt0042513}}</ref> The [[River Redlake]] passes through.<br />
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==Name==<br />
[[File:New Invention - geograph.org.uk - 162087.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Village sign]]<br />
There is a story that the village's unusual name came from a local farrier who decided on the idea of fitting horseshoes backwards to confuse the enemy in times of war.<ref>[http://www.go2.co.uk/About_GO2_Pages/TheGO2GuidetoClu.html Clun - Part of the GO2 Shropshire Visitors Guide<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> A variation of this story is that the farrier reversed the shoes on the horse belonging to Charles I to help him evade capture.<br />
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Another explanation put about is that the village was the first in the district where spinning was carried out using water power,<ref name=foxall>Foxall, H D G. ''Shropshire field-names'', Shropshire Archaeological Society, 1980, p.66</ref> but this theory falls down when it is learned that the name 'New Invention' appears already in a document held at Shropshire Archives dated 1677,<ref>(Shropshire Archives ref 2589/D/108</ref> a hundred years before the invention it was supposedly named for.<br />
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Another suggestion is that it is 'New Inn', though how this could expand to "New Invention" is not explained unless by wild and unlikely surmise. <br />
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The definitive explanation is revealed by an indenture found in the Shropshire Archives; it is the name of a house which once stood here. This records: <br />
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<blockquote>''1. Jonathan Page of Parllogue, p.&nbsp;Clunne, gent.<br />
2. Daniel Bee of Cardington, Clerke.<br />
Of Capital messuage and tenement in Parllogue in p.&nbsp;CLUNNE, in tenure of (1); also of messuage and tenement called the New hall in t. Menuttin, p.&nbsp;CLUNNE, in tenure of Thomas Warburton of Menuttin, gent.; also of that new house called the New Invention, lately built upon parcell of the land belonging to ... the New hall; also of water corne Grist mill, near and belonging to the said New Hall.</blockquote><br />
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A recently built house, presumed to be an inn, might well be a "new invention" in the usage of the age, and particularly with a play on the word "inn".<br />
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