Nether Skyborry

Nether Skyborry is a Grade 2 listed country house (near to Skyborry Green) and lies within the parish of Llanfair Waterdine, South Shropshire. The house has ancient origins; the original, smaller house, was built on part of the footprint of a 16th-century monastic building (part of which still remains). Nether Skyborry was extended, impressively, in the late 18th/early 19th century and once had seven bedrooms but, over the years, these have been reduced to a more manageable number. Nevertheless, the house still boasts no less than 13 chimneys! There are four other houses close by (including the converted stables and coach house of Nether Skyborry) forming a small hamlet. The Welsh border lies very close - the River Teme runs to the south of the hamlet. The Welsh border is just on the other side of the river (but no longer follows the exact course of the river).

Nether Skyborry
The Teme Valley near Nether Skyborry, which lies on the opposite (north-eastern) side of the valley.
Nether Skyborry Location within Shropshire
OS grid reference	SO272740
Civil parish	Llanfair Waterdine
Unitary authority	Shropshire
Ceremonial county	Shropshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	KNIGHTON
Postcode district	LD7
Dialling code	01547
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Shropshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Ludlow

The name "Skyborry" is an anglicisation of the Welsh for barn, ysgubor.[1] "Nether" is English and means near or under.[2] The hamlet is downstream of the other hamlet with the Skyborry place name (Skyborry Green - less than 1 mile (2 km) northwest.

Nether Skyborry lies 190–210 metres (620–690 ft) above sea level, on the northern (English) slope of the Teme valley.

See also

• Skyborry

References

1. Mark Nodine. "Welsh/English translation". Archived from the original on 25 October 2007. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
2. "Wiktionary". Retrieved 1 February 2008.

External links

Media related to Nether Skyborry at Wikimedia Commons