Plowden is a hamlet in the parish of Lydbury North, Shropshire, England.

[1] It is in the valley of the River Onny and lies 3 miles east of Bishop's Castle.

Plowden was one of the stations on the Bishops Castle Railway, which closed in 1935.

[2] Plowden Hall is a grade II* listed building, being a timber-framed building dating in part from about 1300,[3] and is described in the novel John Inglesant by Joseph Henry Shorthouse, who drew the place as Lydiard.

Thomas Falkner, Jesuit missionary and explorer in South America, spent his last years as chaplain at Plowden Hall until his death there in 1784.