The Tern Valley Trail - Wrockwardine's Regal Past

Wrockwardine's Regal Past

The Green, Wrockwardine

By the mid-10th Century, the Royal manor of Wrockwardine was an important local centre enjoying rights and privileges over a wide area of modern day east Shropshire. The settlement's pre-eminence may have arisen when Viroconium Cornoviorum, the former western capital of Roman Britain and home of the Celtic Cornovii tribe, was abandoned at the end of the 6th or early 7th Century in exchange for a site nearer to the traditional tribal centre of The Wrekin Hill fort. However, other sources link Wrockwardine's regal lineage to the legendary kingdom of Pengwern and the seat of its last leader, Cynddylan ap Cyndrwyn.