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Peaton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Diddlebury in Shropshire, England.It is situated in the Corvedale, between Diddlebury and Bouldon. The Pye Brook flows past the hamlet, with Peaton Bridge taking the Bouldon-Diddlebury lane across it. The hamlet lies at 124m above sea level.A smaller hamlet called Peatonstrand lies further towards Bouldon at ; it is partly situated in the valley of the Strand Brook and partly along the lane to Bouldon where the Strand has its confluence with the larger Pye Brook.The towns of Ludlow and Craven Arms are both about 7mi distant, by road.HistoryEtymologyThe name "Peaton" derives from "Peatta's farm".BuildingsPeaton Hall is a Grade II Listed building dating from the 16th or 17th century. Also Listed are 18th-century garden walls adjacent to the hall and 2 barns approximately 100 metres away. Brook Cottage is a 17th-century house, also Grade II Listed, in the hamlet. At Peatonstrand is New House Farmhouse, a Grade II 17th-century farmhouse.There are 6 weather-boarded houses at Peaton (called "Timber Cottages") and 4 at Peatonstrand, built in the 1950s by the Church Commissioners (who bought the Holder Estate in 1942). There are also 4 in Bouldon.There was a Primitive Methodist chapel at Peatonstrand from 1873 to 1984.