New Invention, Shropshire
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For the village in the West Midlands, see New Invention, Willenhall.
New Invention is a village in Shropshire, England on the A488 between Clun and Knighton. It has a Methodist chapel built in 1874.
There is a story that the village's unusual name came about from a local blacksmith who hit on the idea of fitting horseshoes backwards to confuse the enemy in times of war.[1] However, a more credible but prosaic explanation is that the village was the first in the district where spinning was carried out using water power.[2]
New Invention served as a location for the film Gone to Earth (released 1950) and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.[3]
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 New Invention  |
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[edit] References
- ^ Clun - Part of the GO2 Shropshire Visitors Guide
- ^ Foxall, H D G. Shropshire field-names, Shropshire Archaeological Society, 1980, p.66
- ^ "IMDB". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042513/locations. Retrieved 20 November 2007.
[edit] External links
Media related to New Invention, Shropshire at Wikimedia Commons
Coordinates: 52°23′02″N 3°02′20″W / 52.3839°N 3.0388°W
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