Talk:Cleehill

The photo

It's a rather dreary scene, emphasising as it does the old cafe, but it was the only freely usable photo of the village I could find. If anyone has a more attractive one, that would be excellent! Loganberry (Talk) 00:10, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

For the avoidance of confusion: the above comment refers to a previous photo, not the one of the post office on display at time of writing. Loganberry (Talk) 21:00, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Old OS map?

If someone could provide a free scan of an old Ordnance Survey map showing the village, that would be wonderful.

Firstly, it would show altitude, useful because I think the 380m figure we currently use is too high; the (current) 1:25,000 OS map has a highest spot height along the A4117 of 381m, but this is well to the east of the village itself. Squinting at the map seems to show an altitude of about 365m at the east (and higher) end of Cleehill.

Secondly, of course, it would give an idea of the geography of the place. Although there has been a fair bit of new building since the 1950s, the basic outline of the village is still much the same. We'd need a map published in 1957 or earlier for it to be out of Crown Copyright; 1958 maps would be allowed from 1 Jan 2009. Loganberry (Talk) 21:06, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Apologies for talking to myself so much! But as a reminder, we cannot use maps from the New Popular Edition Maps project, because they are under a licence which forbids commercial distribution (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence 2.5) and thus incompatible with Wikipedia's idea of a "free licence". We need someone to scan the map themselves and release the scan under a WP-compatible licence. Loganberry (Talk) 21:17, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Incidentally, the current 1:25,000 map has the village post office in completely the wrong place, on the western fringe of the village when it's actually well to the east of the Tenbury road (B4214). Perhaps a useful caution for us! Loganberry (Talk) 21:08, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Possibly the place named Cleeton in Ellis Peters book?

Seeking which modern place is the place called Cleeton in the sixth chronicle of Brother Cadfael, The Virgin in the Ice. The village is mentioned as the place where the smallholder Druel found safety with his family after being burned out by brigands, and his holding is on the hill of Titterstone Clee. Peters uses real places in her 12th century stories, usually easy to trace even with changes of name over the centuries. I found no trail of the name change so far. Is there one?

Prairieplant (talk) 15:52, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi - Cleeton does exist! It is a small village with the church of St Mary (the village's full name is Cleeton St Mary) and it lies just to the NE of the hill. Have a look around... David (talk) 13:47, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

I'll quickly create an article for it - Cleeton St Mary. David (talk) 13:55, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I will make the link now. Always nice to have experts around! Prairieplant (talk) 19:09, 30 March 2013 (UTC)