Atcham is a village, ecclesiastical parish and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It lies on the B4380, 5 miles south-east of Shrewsbury. The River Severn flows round the village. To the south is th
River Severn at Atcham
Sir Rowland Hill
The two bridges at Atcham
The Mytton & Mermaid, located in the centre of the village on the bank of the Severn
Orderic Vitalis was an English chronicler and Benedictine monk who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th- and 12th-century Normandy and Anglo-Norman England. Working out of the Abbey
Atcham
…In order of birth: Ordericus Vitalis (1075 – c. 1142), chronicler and Benedictine monk, was baptised in the village. Sir Rowland Hill of Soulton, convenor of the Geneva Bible translation…
Modern plaque commemorating Orderic Vitalis at the Abbey of Saint-Evroul, Normandy