English Frankton, formerly known simply as Frankton, is a small village in Shropshire

Shropshire

Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It lies between the villages of Cockshutt

Cockshutt, Shropshire

Cockshutt is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England.-Cockshutt-cum-Petton:Cockshutt-cum-Petton is the name of the combined parish council of the two historic, single-village parishes of Cockshutt and Petton. These two villages, as well as the hamlet of English Frankton, make up the main...

 and Loppington

Loppington

Loppington is a village and parish in Shropshire, England, situated a few miles west of Wem. The population of the parish is 576 and there are 206 households.Loppington was recorded in the Domesday Book as Lopitone....

, in the civil parish

Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 of Cockshutt. The name Frankton probably originated as "Francas's field".

It was recorded in Domesday

Domesday Book

Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

 as Franchetone, when it was held by Rainald the Sheriff from Earl Roger

Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury

Roger de Montgomerie , also known as Roger the Great de Montgomery, was the first Earl of Shrewsbury. His father was also Roger de Montgomerie, and was a relative, probably a grandnephew, of the Duchess Gunnor, wife of Duke Richard I of Normandy...

. Domesday also noted that the manor contained one carruca

Carruca

The Carruca was a heavy, wheeled plow with an iron plowshare which came into widespread use by the tenth century. It was used to turn over heavy soils to let them drain, and was thus an important technological advancement for the medieval agricultural economy...

, along with three villeins and two bordarii.