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class="vector-toc-link" href="#Literature_and_legends"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Literature and legends</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Literature_and_legends-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Theology" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Theology"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Theology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Theology-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Drama" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Drama"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Drama</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Drama-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Shakespeare" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Shakespeare"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3.1</span> <span>Shakespeare</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Shakespeare-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_playwrights" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_playwrights"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3.2</span> <span>Other playwrights</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_playwrights-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Birthplace_of_English_ballet_and_pantomime" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Birthplace_of_English_ballet_and_pantomime"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Birthplace of English ballet and pantomime</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Birthplace_of_English_ballet_and_pantomime-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Architecture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a 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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Shropshire_Day"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Shropshire Day</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Shropshire_Day-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Motto" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Motto"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Motto</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Motto-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Etymology" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Etymology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Geography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Geography"> <div 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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-South_Shropshire" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#South_Shropshire"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>South Shropshire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-South_Shropshire-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Natural_regions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Natural_regions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Natural regions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Natural_regions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Climate" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Climate"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.5</span> <span>Climate</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Climate-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Geology" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Geology"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.6</span> <span>Geology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Geology-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Statistical" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Statistical"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.7</span> <span>Statistical</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Statistical-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Economy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Economy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Towns_and_villages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Towns_and_villages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Towns and villages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Towns_and_villages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Politics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Politics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Politics</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Politics-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Politics subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Politics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Parliamentary_constituencies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Parliamentary_constituencies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>Parliamentary constituencies</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Parliamentary_constituencies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Divisions_and_environs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Divisions_and_environs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2</span> <span>Divisions and environs</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Divisions_and_environs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Local_government_1974–2009" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Local_government_1974–2009"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3</span> <span>Local government 1974–2009</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Local_government_1974–2009-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2009_restructuring" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2009_restructuring"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.4</span> 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<span>Citations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">17.2</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">18</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">19</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" 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Available in 77 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-77" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">77 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrobbesbyrigsc%C4%ABr" title="Scrobbesbyrigscīr – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Scrobbesbyrigscīr" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1" title="شروبشاير – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="شروبشاير" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0" title="শ্রপশার – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="শ্রপশার" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%88%D1%8B%D1%80" title="Шропшыр – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Шропшыр" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%88%D1%8B%D1%80" title="Шропшыр – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Шропшыр" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%88%D1%8A%D1%80" title="Шропшър – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Шропшър" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swydd_Amwythig" title="Swydd Amwythig – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Swydd Amwythig" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%BE%E2%80%8C%D8%B4%D8%B1" title="شراپ‌شر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شراپ‌شر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%88%EB%A1%AD%EC%85%94%EC%A3%BC" title="슈롭셔주 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="슈롭셔주" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%87%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%83%D5%B7%D5%AB%D6%80" title="Շրոփշիր – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Շրոփշիր" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B0" title="श्रॉपशायर – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="श्रॉपशायर" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%80" title="Шропшир – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Шропшир" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A8" title="שרופשייר – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="שרופשייר" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salopiensis_comitatus" title="Salopiensis comitatus – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Salopiensis comitatus" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0rop%C5%A1%C4%ABra" title="Šropšīra – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Šropšīra" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0rop%C5%A1yras" title="Šropšyras – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Šropšyras" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%80" title="Шропшир – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Шропшир" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B0" title="श्रॉपशायर – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="श्रॉपशायर" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC" title="シュロップシャー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="シュロップシャー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%BE%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1" title="شروپشائر – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="شروپشائر" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%80" title="Шропшир – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Шропшир" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%80" title="Шропшир – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Шропшир" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Shropshire" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Shropshire" 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.ib-settlement-native{font-weight:normal;padding-top:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-other-name{font-size:78%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-official{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption{padding:0.3em 0 0 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption-link{padding:0.2em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-nickname{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-fn{font-weight:normal;display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">Shropshire</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">Ceremonial county</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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.thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner span:not(.skin-invert-image):not(.skin-invert):not(.bg-transparent) img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner span:not(.skin-invert-image):not(.skin-invert):not(.bg-transparent) img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tnone center"><div class="multiimageinner" style="width:262px;max-width:262px;border:none"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:260px;max-width:260px"><div style="height:118px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Church_Stretton_beyond_Townbrook_Valley,_Long_Mynd,_Shropshire.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Church_Stretton_beyond_Townbrook_Valley%2C_Long_Mynd%2C_Shropshire.jpg/258px-Church_Stretton_beyond_Townbrook_Valley%2C_Long_Mynd%2C_Shropshire.jpg" decoding="async" width="258" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Church_Stretton_beyond_Townbrook_Valley%2C_Long_Mynd%2C_Shropshire.jpg/387px-Church_Stretton_beyond_Townbrook_Valley%2C_Long_Mynd%2C_Shropshire.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Church_Stretton_beyond_Townbrook_Valley%2C_Long_Mynd%2C_Shropshire.jpg/516px-Church_Stretton_beyond_Townbrook_Valley%2C_Long_Mynd%2C_Shropshire.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5000" data-file-height="2290" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:92px;max-width:92px"><div style="height:123px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Shrewsbury_Market_Hall_and_clock_tower_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3711724.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Shrewsbury_Market_Hall_and_clock_tower_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3711724.jpg/90px-Shrewsbury_Market_Hall_and_clock_tower_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3711724.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Shrewsbury_Market_Hall_and_clock_tower_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3711724.jpg/135px-Shrewsbury_Market_Hall_and_clock_tower_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3711724.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Shrewsbury_Market_Hall_and_clock_tower_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3711724.jpg/180px-Shrewsbury_Market_Hall_and_clock_tower_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3711724.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1166" data-file-height="1600" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:166px;max-width:166px"><div style="height:123px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Iron_Bridge,_Side_Angled_View.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/The_Iron_Bridge%2C_Side_Angled_View.jpg/164px-The_Iron_Bridge%2C_Side_Angled_View.jpg" decoding="async" width="164" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/The_Iron_Bridge%2C_Side_Angled_View.jpg/246px-The_Iron_Bridge%2C_Side_Angled_View.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/The_Iron_Bridge%2C_Side_Angled_View.jpg/328px-The_Iron_Bridge%2C_Side_Angled_View.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5156" data-file-height="3867" /></a></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ib-settlement-caption">The <a href="/wiki/Long_Mynd" title="Long Mynd">Long Mynd</a>; the clock tower of <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Market_Hall" title="Shrewsbury Market Hall">Shrewsbury Market Hall</a>; and <a href="/wiki/The_Iron_Bridge" title="The Iron Bridge">the Iron Bridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ironbridge" title="Ironbridge">Ironbridge</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Shropshire_UK_locator_map_2010.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Shropshire within England"><img alt="Shropshire within England" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Shropshire_UK_locator_map_2010.svg/250px-Shropshire_UK_locator_map_2010.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Shropshire_UK_locator_map_2010.svg/375px-Shropshire_UK_locator_map_2010.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Shropshire_UK_locator_map_2010.svg/500px-Shropshire_UK_locator_map_2010.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1108" data-file-height="1345" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Shropshire within England</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Shropshire&params=52_37_N_2_43_W_region:GB-SHR_type:adm1st"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">52°37′N</span> <span class="longitude">2°43′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">52.617°N 2.717°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">52.617; -2.717</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Sovereign state</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Constituent country</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_England" title="Regions of England">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(region)" title="West Midlands (region)">West Midlands</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Historic_counties_of_England" title="Historic counties of England">Ancient</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Time in the United Kingdom">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B0" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+0">UTC+0</a> (<a href="/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time" title="Greenwich Mean Time">GMT</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B1" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+1">UTC+1</a> (<a href="/wiki/British_Summer_Time" title="British Summer Time">BST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">UK Parliament</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_constituencies_in_Shropshire" title="Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire">List of MPs</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Police</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/West_Mercia_Police" title="West Mercia Police">West Mercia Police</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="background-color: #cddeff; font-weight: bold;"><a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">Ceremonial county</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Shropshire" title="Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire">Lord Lieutenant</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Anna Turner JP<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Shropshire" title="High Sheriff of Shropshire">High Sheriff</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Robert Anthony Morris-Eyton</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">3,488 km<sup>2</sup> (1,347 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_ceremonial_counties_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="List of ceremonial counties of England">13th of 48</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population<span class="nowrap"> </span><div class="ib-settlement-fn">(2022)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">516,049</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_ceremonial_counties_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="List of ceremonial counties of England">41st of 48</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Density</th><td class="infobox-data">148/km<sup>2</sup> (380/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ethnicity<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><small>Figures for <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_(district)" title="Shropshire (district)">Shropshire UA</a>:</small><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />93.8% White, British<br />1.9% White, other<br />1.5% S. Asian<br />0.9% Mixed<br />0.6% White, Irish<br />0.6% Black</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="background-color: #cddeff; font-weight: bold;"><a href="/wiki/Unitary_authorities_of_England" title="Unitary authorities of England">Unitary authorities</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Councils</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Council" title="Shropshire Council">Shropshire Council</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Telford_and_Wrekin_Council" title="Telford and Wrekin Council">Telford and Wrekin Council</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="background-color: #cddeff; font-weight: bold;">Districts</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Shropshire_numbered_districts.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Shropshire_numbered_districts.svg/200px-Shropshire_numbered_districts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="228" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Shropshire_numbered_districts.svg/300px-Shropshire_numbered_districts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Shropshire_numbered_districts.svg/400px-Shropshire_numbered_districts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1046" data-file-height="1192" /></a></span><br />Districts of Shropshire<br /><span style="display:inline-block;border:1.62px solid black;vertical-align:text-top;" title="#fefe77"><span class="mw-no-invert" style="display:block;padding:0;width:1em;height:1em;background:#FEFE77;color:inherit;"> </span></span> Unitary </td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England">Districts</a></th><td class="infobox-data"> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_(district)" title="Shropshire (district)">Shropshire</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Telford_and_Wrekin" title="Telford and Wrekin">Telford and Wrekin</a></span></li></ol> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Shropshire</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="/ər/: 'er' in 'letter'">ər</span></span>,<span class="wrap"> </span>-<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="/ɪər/: 'ear' in 'near'">ɪər</span></span>/</a></span></span>; abbreviated <b>Salop</b><sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) is a <a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">ceremonial county</a> in the <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(region)" title="West Midlands (region)">West Midlands</a> of England, on the <a href="/wiki/England%E2%80%93Wales_border" title="England–Wales border">border with Wales</a>. It is bordered by <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a> to the north-east, <a href="/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a> to the east, <a href="/wiki/Worcestershire" title="Worcestershire">Worcestershire</a> to the south-east, <a href="/wiki/Herefordshire" title="Herefordshire">Herefordshire</a> to the south, and the Welsh principal areas of <a href="/wiki/Powys" title="Powys">Powys</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wrexham_County_Borough" title="Wrexham County Borough">Wrexham</a> to the west and north-west respectively. The largest settlement is <a href="/wiki/Telford" title="Telford">Telford</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a> is the <a href="/wiki/County_town" title="County town">county town</a>. </p><p>The county has an area of 3,487 km<sup>2</sup> (1,346 square miles) and a population of 498,073. Telford in the east and Shrewsbury in the centre are the largest towns. Shropshire is otherwise rural, and contains <a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">market towns</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Oswestry" title="Oswestry">Oswestry</a> in the north-west, <a href="/wiki/Market_Drayton" title="Market Drayton">Market Drayton</a> in the north-east, <a href="/wiki/Bridgnorth" title="Bridgnorth">Bridgnorth</a> in the south-east, and <a href="/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow">Ludlow</a> in the south. For <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_England" title="Local government in England">local government</a> purposes the county comprises two <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authorities_of_England" title="Unitary authorities of England">unitary authority</a> areas: <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_(district)" title="Shropshire (district)">Shropshire</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Telford_and_Wrekin" title="Telford and Wrekin">Telford and Wrekin</a>. The county <a href="/wiki/Historic_counties_of_England" title="Historic counties of England">historically</a> had a <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_(Detached)" title="Shropshire (Detached)">large exclave</a> around <a href="/wiki/Halesowen" title="Halesowen">Halesowen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oldbury,_West_Midlands" title="Oldbury, West Midlands">Oldbury</a>, which are now in the <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(county)" title="West Midlands (county)">West Midlands</a> county. </p><p>The south-west and far west of the county are upland. The <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Hills" title="Shropshire Hills">Shropshire Hills</a> occupy most of the south-west and include the <a href="/wiki/Stiperstones" title="Stiperstones">Stiperstones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clee_Hills" title="Clee Hills">Clee Hills</a>, <a href="/wiki/Long_Mynd" title="Long Mynd">Long Mynd</a> plateau, and the <a href="/wiki/Wenlock_Edge" title="Wenlock Edge">Wenlock Edge</a> escarpment. Together with <a href="/wiki/The_Wrekin" title="The Wrekin">the Wrekin</a>, which stands isolated to the east of Telford, they have been designated a <a href="/wiki/National_Landscape" class="mw-redirect" title="National Landscape">national landscape</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To their west is the upland <a href="/wiki/Clun_Forest" title="Clun Forest">Clun Forest</a>, and in the far north-west of the county are the <a href="/wiki/Oswestry_Uplands" title="Oswestry Uplands">Oswestry uplands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The north of the county is a plain,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the far north contains <a href="/wiki/Wixall_Moss" class="mw-redirect" title="Wixall Moss">Wixall Moss</a>, part of a <a href="/wiki/National_nature_reserve_(United_Kingdom)" title="National nature reserve (United Kingdom)">national nature reserve</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The south-east is a <a href="/wiki/Mid_Severn_Sandstone_Plateau" title="Mid Severn Sandstone Plateau">sandstone plateau</a> which forms part of the catchment of the <a href="/wiki/River_Severn" title="River Severn">Severn</a>, the county's major river;<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it enters Shropshire in the west and flows through Shrewsbury before turning south-west and exiting into Worcestershire south of Bridgnorth. </p><p>There is evidence of <a href="/wiki/Neolithic_British_Isles" title="Neolithic British Isles">Neolithic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age_Britain" title="Bronze Age Britain">Bronze Age</a> human occupation in Shropshire, including the <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_bulla" title="Shropshire bulla">Shropshire bulla</a> pendant. The <a href="/wiki/Hillfort" title="Hillfort">hillfort</a> at <a href="/wiki/Old_Oswestry" title="Old Oswestry">Old Oswestry</a> dates from the <a href="/wiki/British_Iron_Age" title="British Iron Age">Iron Age</a>, and the remains of the city of <a href="/wiki/Viroconium_Cornoviorum" title="Viroconium Cornoviorum">Viroconium Cornoviorum</a> date from the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Roman</a> period.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Anglo-Saxon</a> era the area was part of <a href="/wiki/Mercia" title="Mercia">Mercia</a>. During the <a href="/wiki/High_Middle_Ages" title="High Middle Ages">High Middle Ages</a> the county was part of the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Marches" title="Welsh Marches">Welsh Marches</a>, the border region between Wales and England; from 1472 to 1689 Ludlow was the seat of the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Wales_and_the_Marches" title="Council of Wales and the Marches">Council of Wales and the Marches</a>, which administered justice in Wales and Herefordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a> Shropshire was <a href="/wiki/Cavalier" title="Cavalier">Royalist</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a> fled through the county—famously hiding in an <a href="/wiki/Royal_Oak" title="Royal Oak">oak tree</a>—after his final defeat at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Worcester" title="Battle of Worcester">Battle of Worcester</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The area around <a href="/wiki/Coalbrookdale" title="Coalbrookdale">Coalbrookdale</a> is regarded as one of the birthplaces of the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a> and has been designated a UNESCO <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Shropshire" title="History of Shropshire">History of Shropshire</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prehistory_and_antiquity">Prehistory and antiquity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Prehistory and antiquity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Evidence of <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> occupation of a religious form dating back before 2,000 BC, was discovered in 2017 in the grounds of a church, the medieval Church of the Holy Fathers in <a href="/wiki/Sutton_Farm" title="Sutton Farm">Sutton</a>, Shrewsbury, making it Britain's oldest place of worship.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shropshire_Sun_Pendant.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Shropshire_Sun_Pendant.jpg/220px-Shropshire_Sun_Pendant.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Shropshire_Sun_Pendant.jpg/330px-Shropshire_Sun_Pendant.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Shropshire_Sun_Pendant.jpg/440px-Shropshire_Sun_Pendant.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2826" data-file-height="2336" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_bulla" title="Shropshire bulla">Shropshire bulla</a> or sun pendant</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_bulla" title="Shropshire bulla">Shropshire bulla</a> ("bulla" is Medieval Latin for "a round seal", Classical Latin for "bubble, blob", plural bullae), also known as the Shropshire sun pendant, is a Late Bronze Age gold pendant found by a metal detectorist in 2018 in Shropshire.<sup id="cite_ref-Portable_Antiq_Scheme_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Portable_Antiq_Scheme-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At <a href="/wiki/Mitchell%27s_Fold" title="Mitchell's Fold">Mitchel's Fold</a> there is a Bronze Age stone circle set in dramatic moorland on <a href="/wiki/Stapeley_Hill" title="Stapeley Hill">Stapeley Hill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mitchell%27s_Fold_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Mitchell%27s_Fold_1.jpg/220px-Mitchell%27s_Fold_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Mitchell%27s_Fold_1.jpg/330px-Mitchell%27s_Fold_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Mitchell%27s_Fold_1.jpg/440px-Mitchell%27s_Fold_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mitchell%27s_Fold" title="Mitchell's Fold">Mitchell's Fold</a> prehistoric stone circle</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hilfort_d%27Oswestry._Vue_sur_l%27entr%C3%A9e_de_la_colline_fortifi%C3%A9e.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Hilfort_d%27Oswestry._Vue_sur_l%27entr%C3%A9e_de_la_colline_fortifi%C3%A9e.jpg/220px-Hilfort_d%27Oswestry._Vue_sur_l%27entr%C3%A9e_de_la_colline_fortifi%C3%A9e.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Hilfort_d%27Oswestry._Vue_sur_l%27entr%C3%A9e_de_la_colline_fortifi%C3%A9e.jpg/330px-Hilfort_d%27Oswestry._Vue_sur_l%27entr%C3%A9e_de_la_colline_fortifi%C3%A9e.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Hilfort_d%27Oswestry._Vue_sur_l%27entr%C3%A9e_de_la_colline_fortifi%C3%A9e.jpg/440px-Hilfort_d%27Oswestry._Vue_sur_l%27entr%C3%A9e_de_la_colline_fortifi%C3%A9e.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1083" data-file-height="732" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Old_Oswestry" title="Old Oswestry">Old Oswestry</a> Hillfort (aerial image)</figcaption></figure> <p>The area was once part of the lands of the <a href="/wiki/Cornovii_(Midlands)" title="Cornovii (Midlands)">Cornovii</a>, which consisted of the modern day counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, north Staffordshire, north Herefordshire, and eastern parts of Powys. This was a tribal <a href="/wiki/Celtic_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Celtic people">Celtic</a> <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> kingdom. Their capital in pre-<a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman</a> times was probably a <a href="/wiki/Hill_fort" class="mw-redirect" title="Hill fort">hill fort</a> on <a href="/wiki/The_Wrekin" title="The Wrekin">the Wrekin</a>. There is an important Iron Age Hill fort at <a href="/wiki/Old_Oswestry" title="Old Oswestry">Old Oswestry</a> earthworks, this has been linked to where <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">King Arthur’s</a> <a href="/wiki/Guinevere" title="Guinevere">Guinevere</a> was born and called "the <a href="/wiki/Stonehenge" title="Stonehenge">Stonehenge</a> of the Iron Age."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ruins_of_Viroconium_bath_house,_Wroxeter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4039967.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Ruins_of_Viroconium_bath_house%2C_Wroxeter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4039967.jpg/220px-Ruins_of_Viroconium_bath_house%2C_Wroxeter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4039967.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Ruins_of_Viroconium_bath_house%2C_Wroxeter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4039967.jpg/330px-Ruins_of_Viroconium_bath_house%2C_Wroxeter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4039967.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Ruins_of_Viroconium_bath_house%2C_Wroxeter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4039967.jpg/440px-Ruins_of_Viroconium_bath_house%2C_Wroxeter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4039967.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3488" data-file-height="2616" /></a><figcaption>Ruins of <a href="/wiki/Viroconium" class="mw-redirect" title="Viroconium">Viroconium</a> bath house, (location now known as Wroxeter). This was once the 4th largest city in Roman Britain.</figcaption></figure> <p>According to tradition, <a href="/wiki/Caratacus" title="Caratacus">Caracticus</a> made his last stand against the Romans in Shropshire.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy" title="Ptolemy">Ptolemy</a>'s 2nd century <i>Geography</i> names one of their towns as being <a href="/wiki/Viroconium_Cornoviorum" title="Viroconium Cornoviorum">Viroconium Cornoviorum</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wroxeter" title="Wroxeter">Wroxeter</a>), which became their capital under <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Roman rule</a> and one of the largest settlements in Britain. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Hollandophyton" title="Hollandophyton">Hollandophyton, the extinct plants</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Middle_Ages">Middle Ages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Early_period">Early period</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Early period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the Roman occupation of Britain ended in the 5th century, the Shropshire area was in the eastern part of the Welsh <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Powys" title="Kingdom of Powys">Kingdom of Powys</a>; known in Welsh poetry as the <i>Paradise of Powys</i>. </p><p>As 'Caer Guricon' it is a possible Shrewsbury was the site of the seat of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Powys" title="Kingdom of Powys">Kingdom of Powys</a> in the Early Middle Ages. This would date establishment of the town to the 500s CE under <a href="/wiki/Brochwel_Ysgithrog" title="Brochwel Ysgithrog">Brochwel Ysgithrog</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is believed the area of Shrewsbury was settled in the 5th century by refugees from the nearby Roman City of <a href="/wiki/Viroconium_Cornoviorum" title="Viroconium Cornoviorum">Viroconium Cornoviorum</a>, most physical evidence dates from the 7th century.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Oswestry saw conflict in the early mediaeval period and is reputed to be the place of death of <a href="/wiki/Oswald_of_Northumbria" title="Oswald of Northumbria">Oswald of Northumbria</a> in 641 or 642 CE. Oswald was later regarded as a saint, with <a href="/wiki/Bede" title="Bede">Bede</a> saying that the spot where he died came to be associated with <a href="/wiki/Miracle" title="Miracle">miracles</a>, and people took dirt from the site, which led to a hole being dug as deep as a man's height.<sup id="cite_ref-Bede_nine_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bede_nine-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/King_Offa" class="mw-redirect" title="King Offa">King Offa</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mercia" title="Mercia">Mercia</a> annexed the entirety of Shropshire over the course of the 8th century from Powys, with Shrewsbury captured in 778, with <a href="/wiki/Offa%27s_Dyke" title="Offa's Dyke">two dykes</a> built to defend, or at least demarcate it from the Welsh.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> King Offa converted the palace of the rulers of Powys into his first church, dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Chad_of_Mercia" title="Chad of Mercia">St Chad</a> (a foundation that still survives in the town and operated on that initial site for over 1000 years, moving in 1792).<sup id="cite_ref-auto_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Offa%27s_Dyke_near_Clun.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Offa%27s_Dyke_near_Clun.jpg/220px-Offa%27s_Dyke_near_Clun.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Offa%27s_Dyke_near_Clun.jpg/330px-Offa%27s_Dyke_near_Clun.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Offa%27s_Dyke_near_Clun.jpg/440px-Offa%27s_Dyke_near_Clun.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Section of <a href="/wiki/Offa%27s_Dyke" title="Offa's Dyke">Offa's Dyke</a> near the Shropshire town of <a href="/wiki/Clun" title="Clun">Clun</a>, constructed after the Saxon annexation of the area in the 8th century AD</figcaption></figure> <p>In later centuries, <a href="/wiki/Viking" class="mw-redirect" title="Viking">Vikings</a> repeatedly invaded and fortresses were built at <a href="/wiki/Bridgnorth" title="Bridgnorth">Bridgnorth</a> (912) and <a href="/wiki/Chirbury" title="Chirbury">Chirbury</a> (913).<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%C3%86thelfl%C3%A6d_as_depicted_in_the_cartulary_of_Abingdon_Abbey.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/%C3%86thelfl%C3%A6d_as_depicted_in_the_cartulary_of_Abingdon_Abbey.png" decoding="async" width="189" height="284" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="189" data-file-height="284" /></a><figcaption>The relics of <a href="/wiki/Alkmund_of_Derby" title="Alkmund of Derby">St Alkmund</a> were brought to <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a> in the C10th, possibly by <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelfl%C3%A6d" title="Æthelflæd">Æthelflæd</a>, lady of the Mercians, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Alfred_the_Great" title="Alfred the Great">Alfred the Great</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 914,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelfl%C3%A6d" title="Æthelflæd">Æthelflæd</a>, Lady of the Mercians, fortified Shrewsbury, along with two other fortresses, at <i>Scergeat</i> (a currently unknown location) and <i>Weardbyrig</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Viking rides from the north traveling south were reaching <a href="/wiki/Bridgnorth" title="Bridgnorth">Bridgnorth</a> at this time (910CE).<sup id="cite_ref-:2_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the early tenth century, the relics of <a href="/wiki/Alkmund_of_Derby" title="Alkmund of Derby">St Alkmund</a> were translated to Whitchurch, this was also probably the work of Æthelflæd.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is evidence to show that by the beginning of the 900s, Shrewsbury was home to a <a href="/wiki/Mint_(coin)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mint (coin)">mint</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-localhistories.org_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-localhistories.org-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Archaeological excavations at the site of Shrewsbury castle in 2019 have indicated that the castle itself may have been a fortified site in the time of the Saxons.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="High_medieval_period">High medieval period</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: High medieval period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman conquest of England">Norman conquest</a> in 1066, major estates in Shropshire were granted to Normans, including <a href="/wiki/Roger_de_Montgomerie" class="mw-redirect" title="Roger de Montgomerie">Roger de Montgomerie</a> and later his son <a href="/wiki/Robert_de_Bell%C3%AAme" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert de Bellême">Robert de Bellême</a>, who ordered significant constructions, particularly in Shrewsbury, the town of which he was <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Shrewsbury" title="Earl of Shrewsbury">Earl</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many defensive castles were built at this time across the county to defend against the Welsh and enable effective control of the region, including <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Castle" title="Ludlow Castle">Ludlow Castle</a><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Castle" title="Shrewsbury Castle">Shrewsbury Castle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The western frontier with Wales was not finally determined until the 14th century. Also in this period, a number of religious foundations were formed, the county largely falling at this time under the <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Hereford" title="Diocese of Hereford">Diocese of Hereford</a> and that of <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Coventry_and_Lichfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield">Coventry and Lichfield</a>. Some parishes in the north-west of the county in later times fell under the <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_St._Asaph" class="mw-redirect" title="Diocese of St. Asaph">Diocese of St. Asaph</a> until the <a href="/wiki/Disestablishmentarianism" title="Disestablishmentarianism">disestablishment</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Church_in_Wales" title="Church in Wales">Church in Wales</a> in 1920, when they were ceded to the Lichfield diocese.<sup id="cite_ref-Trinder_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trinder-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The county was a central part of the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Marches" title="Welsh Marches">Welsh Marches</a> during the medieval period and was often embroiled in the power struggles between powerful <a href="/wiki/Marcher_Lords" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcher Lords">Marcher Lords</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Earls_of_March" class="mw-redirect" title="Earls of March">Earls of March</a> and successive monarchs.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_history">Modern history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Modern history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ludlow_Castle_from_Whitcliffe,_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Ludlow_Castle_from_Whitcliffe%2C_2011.jpg/220px-Ludlow_Castle_from_Whitcliffe%2C_2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Ludlow_Castle_from_Whitcliffe%2C_2011.jpg/330px-Ludlow_Castle_from_Whitcliffe%2C_2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Ludlow_Castle_from_Whitcliffe%2C_2011.jpg/440px-Ludlow_Castle_from_Whitcliffe%2C_2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="425" /></a><figcaption> <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Castle" title="Ludlow Castle">Ludlow Castle</a>: one of the seats of the Council of the Marches, and a long-term focus of the court around successive Princes of Wales</figcaption></figure> <p>From 1457, <a href="/wiki/Henry_VI_of_England" title="Henry VI of England">King Henry VI</a> created for his son, <a href="/wiki/Edward_of_Westminster,_Prince_of_Wales" title="Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales">Prince Edward</a>, a Council to rule Wales and the Marches, <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Cornwall" title="Duchy of Cornwall">Cornwall</a>, which became the Council of the Marches.<sup id="cite_ref-griffiths_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-griffiths-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shropshire was governed via this council for several centuries. </p><p>According to historian <a href="/wiki/John_Davies_(historian)" title="John Davies (historian)">John Davies</a>, at its peak under Sir <a href="/wiki/Henry_Sidney" title="Henry Sidney">Henry Sidney</a> and for a period thereafter the Council: </p> <blockquote><p>represented a remarkable experiment in regional government. It administered the law cheaply and rapidly; it dealt with up to twenty cases a day and <a href="/wiki/George_Owen_of_Henllys" title="George Owen of Henllys">George Owen</a> stated that the 'oppressed poor' flocked to it.<sup id="cite_ref-davies_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-davies-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Civil_War">Civil War</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Civil War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_in_the_English_Civil_War" title="Shropshire in the English Civil War">Shropshire in the English Civil War</a></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>, Shropshire was a <a href="/wiki/Cavalier" title="Cavalier">Royalist</a> stronghold, under the command of Sir <a href="/wiki/Francis_Ottley" title="Francis Ottley">Francis Ottley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the autumn of 1642, <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I</a> had a temporary capital at Shrewsbury, though he immediately moved to Oxford after the events of the Battle of <a href="/wiki/Wem" title="Wem">Wem</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/Prince_Rupert_of_the_Rhine" title="Prince Rupert of the Rhine">Prince Rupert</a> established his headquarters in the town on 18 February 1644, being welcomed by Shrewsbury's aldermen.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shrewsbury_Flaxmill-Maltings_east_side_December_2018.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Shrewsbury_Flaxmill-Maltings_east_side_December_2018.jpg/220px-Shrewsbury_Flaxmill-Maltings_east_side_December_2018.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Shrewsbury_Flaxmill-Maltings_east_side_December_2018.jpg/330px-Shrewsbury_Flaxmill-Maltings_east_side_December_2018.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Shrewsbury_Flaxmill-Maltings_east_side_December_2018.jpg/440px-Shrewsbury_Flaxmill-Maltings_east_side_December_2018.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3888" /></a><figcaption>The Flaxmill-Maltings, under restoration</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Victorian_era">Victorian era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Victorian era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Much_Wenlock" title="Much Wenlock">Much Wenlock</a> was the birthplace of the <a href="/wiki/Modern_Olympic_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern Olympic Games">modern Olympic</a> movement.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture_and_cultural_references">Culture and cultural references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Culture and cultural references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literature_and_legends">Literature and legends</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Literature and legends"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the High Medieval period the Shropshire area influenced important poetry: the poet <a href="/wiki/William_Langland" title="William Langland">William Langland</a>, writer of <a href="/wiki/Piers_Plowman" title="Piers Plowman">Piers Plowman</a>, was born in <a href="/wiki/Cleobury_Mortimer" title="Cleobury Mortimer">Cleobury Mortimer</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the 14th-century alliterative poem <a href="/wiki/St._Erkenwald_(poem)" title="St. Erkenwald (poem)">St Erkenwald</a><sup id="cite_ref-Austin_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Austin-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is written in a local dialect.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The only copy of the ancient poem 'Life and Death'<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was also found in Shropshire.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In this period the county was also associated in divers places and ways with Arthurian legends, for instance at Hawkstone, where there is a legend that one of the caves of Hawkstone Park was the burial ground of <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">King Arthur</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Arthurian story of the giants Tarquin and Tarquinus<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is located, or <a href="/wiki/Whittington_Castle" title="Whittington Castle">Whittington Castle</a> and linked to the Holy Grail since the 13th century.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Old_Oswestry" title="Old Oswestry">Old Oswestry</a> has been identified as a possible home of Guinevere.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Castle" title="Ludlow Castle">Ludlow Castle</a> site features heavily in the folk-story of <a href="/wiki/Fulk_FitzWarin" title="Fulk FitzWarin">Fulk FitzWarin</a>, outlawed Lord of <a href="/wiki/Whittington,_Shropshire" title="Whittington, Shropshire">Whittington, Shropshire</a> and a possible inspiration for the <i><a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood" title="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a></i> legend.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_Showing_the_Territory_of_the_Forest_of_Arden.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="map showing the Roman roads bounding the old Forest of Arden" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Map_Showing_the_Territory_of_the_Forest_of_Arden.jpg/220px-Map_Showing_the_Territory_of_the_Forest_of_Arden.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Map_Showing_the_Territory_of_the_Forest_of_Arden.jpg/330px-Map_Showing_the_Territory_of_the_Forest_of_Arden.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Map_Showing_the_Territory_of_the_Forest_of_Arden.jpg/440px-Map_Showing_the_Territory_of_the_Forest_of_Arden.jpg 2x" data-file-width="844" data-file-height="746" /></a><figcaption>Parts of Shropshire in the ancient Forest of Arden</figcaption></figure> <p>Parts of Shropshire are inside the ancient <a href="/wiki/Arden,_Warwickshire" title="Arden, Warwickshire">Forest of Arden</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was the part if the <a href="/wiki/English_Midlands" class="mw-redirect" title="English Midlands">English Midlands</a>, that in antiquity and into the Early Modern Period was bounded by the Roman roads including to the North by the <a href="/wiki/Watling_Street" title="Watling Street">Watling Street</a> and to the west by Wales. This forest was the Setting of Shakespeare's <i><a href="/wiki/As_You_Like_It" title="As You Like It">As You Like It</a>,</i><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that play is acknowledged to potentially be a cultural monument to <a href="/wiki/Rowland_Hill_(MP)" title="Rowland Hill (MP)">Sir Rowland Hill</a>, a prominent Tudor statesman and publisher of the <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Bible" title="Geneva Bible">Geneva Bible</a> from the county.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shropshire was the original seat of prominence of the Cotton family who held the <a href="/wiki/Cotton_library" title="Cotton library">Cotton Library</a> before it was taken to found the British Library.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Abbey" title="Shrewsbury Abbey">Shrewsbury Abbey</a> features in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cadfael_Chronicles" title="The Cadfael Chronicles">The Cadfael Chronicles</a></i>; <a href="/wiki/Brother_Cadfael" class="mw-redirect" title="Brother Cadfael">Brother Cadfael</a> is a member of the community at the Abbey.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The poet <a href="/wiki/A._E._Housman" title="A. E. Housman">A. E. Housman</a> used Shropshire as the setting for many of the poems in his first book, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Shropshire_Lad" title="A Shropshire Lad">A Shropshire Lad</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moreover, many of <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Saville" title="Malcolm Saville">Malcolm Saville</a>'s children's books are set in Shropshire. Additionally, <a href="/wiki/D._H._Lawrence" title="D. H. Lawrence">D. H. Lawrence</a>'s novella, <i>St. Mawr</i>, is partially set in the Stiperstones area of <a href="/wiki/South_Shropshire" title="South Shropshire">South Shropshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dickins_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dickins-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mary_Webb_statue,_Shrewsbury.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Mary_Webb_statue%2C_Shrewsbury.jpg/220px-Mary_Webb_statue%2C_Shrewsbury.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="391" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Mary_Webb_statue%2C_Shrewsbury.jpg/330px-Mary_Webb_statue%2C_Shrewsbury.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Mary_Webb_statue%2C_Shrewsbury.jpg/440px-Mary_Webb_statue%2C_Shrewsbury.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2268" data-file-height="4032" /></a><figcaption>Mary Webb is remembered with a bust in Shrewsbury.</figcaption></figure> <p>The early 20th century novelist and poet <a href="/wiki/Mary_Webb" title="Mary Webb">Mary Webb</a> was born in Shropshire and lived most of her life there, and all her novels are set there, most notably <i><a href="/wiki/Precious_Bane" title="Precious Bane">Precious Bane</a></i>, with its powerful evocation of the Shropshire countryside.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Mary_Webb_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary Webb School">school</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pontesbury" title="Pontesbury">Pontesbury</a> bears her name. </p><p>Shropshire is widely believed to have been an influence for <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a>'s landscape of <a href="/wiki/The_Shire" title="The Shire">the Shire</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings" title="The Lord of the Rings">The Lord of the Rings</a></i>. Specifically, the Wrekin (as The Lonely Mountain) and Ellesmere (as Laketown) are said to have inspired the English fantasy writer.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Susanna_Clarke" title="Susanna Clarke">Susanna Clarke</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Strange_%26_Mr_Norrell" title="Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell">Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell</a></i> (2004), Jonathan Strange is from the county, and some parts of the book are set there. Another fictional character from Shropshire is Mr Grindley, from <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>' <i>Bleak House</i>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse" title="P. G. Wodehouse">P. G. Wodehouse</a>'s fictional <a href="/wiki/Blandings_Castle" title="Blandings Castle">Blandings Castle</a>, the ancestral home of <a href="/wiki/Lord_Emsworth" title="Lord Emsworth">Lord Emsworth</a>, is located in Shropshire.<sup id="cite_ref-Wodehouse_1977_195_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wodehouse_1977_195-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also from Shropshire is <a href="/wiki/Psmith" title="Psmith">Psmith</a>, a fictional character in a series of Wodehouse's novels. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest" title="The Importance of Being Earnest">The Importance of Being Earnest</a></i>, Algernon attempts to trick Jack into revealing the location of his country home by inferring he resides in Shropshire.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 1856 <a href="/wiki/Anti-Tom_literature" title="Anti-Tom literature">plantation literature</a> novel <i><a href="/wiki/White_Acre_vs._Black_Acre" title="White Acre vs. Black Acre">White Acre vs. Black Acre</a></i> by William M. Burwell features two Shropshire farms acting as an allegory for <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the United States">American slavery</a> – "White Acre Farm" being the <a href="/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_States" title="Abolitionism in the United States">abolitionist</a> Northern United States, and "Black Acre Farm" being the slaveholding Southern United States.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The angel <a href="/wiki/Aziraphale" class="mw-redirect" title="Aziraphale">Aziraphale</a>, a principal character in <i><a href="/wiki/Good_Omens" title="Good Omens">Good Omens</a></i>, was credited with designing Shropshire by <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the novel <i><a href="/wiki/Howards_End" title="Howards End">Howards End</a></i>, Mr. Wilcox's daughter gets married in Shropshire. Part of the novel is set near <a href="/wiki/Clun" title="Clun">Clun</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theology">Theology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Theology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shropshire was the native county and rural seat of power of <a href="/wiki/Rowland_Hill_(MP)" title="Rowland Hill (MP)">Sir Rowland Hill</a>, who coordinated and published the 1560 <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Bible" title="Geneva Bible">Geneva Bible</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This important Bible was the senior Bible of English Protestantism for the early decades of the <a href="/wiki/Elizabethan_Religious_Settlement" title="Elizabethan Religious Settlement">Elizabethan Religious Settlement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Drama">Drama</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Drama"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shoe_makers_arbour_Shrewsbury.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Shoe_makers_arbour_Shrewsbury.jpg/220px-Shoe_makers_arbour_Shrewsbury.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="381" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Shoe_makers_arbour_Shrewsbury.jpg/330px-Shoe_makers_arbour_Shrewsbury.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Shoe_makers_arbour_Shrewsbury.jpg/440px-Shoe_makers_arbour_Shrewsbury.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1784" data-file-height="3089" /></a><figcaption>A surviving 1679 arbour in Shrewsbury (that of the Shoemakers Guild). Originally there were many of these for pageantry and performance in Kingsland.</figcaption></figure> <p>Prior to the <a href="/wiki/Reformation" title="Reformation">Reformation</a>, there are accounts of major festivals in the county.<sup id="cite_ref-upload.wikimedia.org_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-upload.wikimedia.org-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The "first flowerings of English drama" in the Tudor period are considered to be in the town, according to the 18th century <a href="/wiki/Poet_laureate" title="Poet laureate">Poet laureate</a> and scholar <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Warton" title="Thomas Warton">Thomas Warton</a>. <a href="/wiki/Whitsun" title="Whitsun">Whitsuntide</a> and mystery plays were performed in the founding years of <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_School" title="Shrewsbury School">Shrewsbury School</a> under <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Ashton_(schoolmaster)" title="Thomas Ashton (schoolmaster)">Thomas Ashton</a>; they attracted the attention of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I" title="Elizabeth I">Queen Elizabeth I</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later this was expressed in the many arbours built in Shrewsbury for that town's particular tradition of pageantry and performance.<sup id="cite_ref-upload.wikimedia.org_85-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-upload.wikimedia.org-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Shakespeare">Shakespeare</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Shakespeare"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Henry_Percy_Hotspur_(1364or1366%E2%80%931403).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Henry_Percy_Hotspur_%281364or1366%E2%80%931403%29.png/220px-Henry_Percy_Hotspur_%281364or1366%E2%80%931403%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="297" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Henry_Percy_Hotspur_%281364or1366%E2%80%931403%29.png/330px-Henry_Percy_Hotspur_%281364or1366%E2%80%931403%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Henry_Percy_Hotspur_%281364or1366%E2%80%931403%29.png/440px-Henry_Percy_Hotspur_%281364or1366%E2%80%931403%29.png 2x" data-file-width="532" data-file-height="717" /></a><figcaption>The last two acts of <i>Henry IV, Part I</i> are set in the county.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a> memorialised the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shrewsbury" title="Battle of Shrewsbury">Battle of Shrewsbury</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_1" title="Henry IV, Part 1">Henry IV, Part 1</a></i>, in Acts IV (Scenes and 3) and V (Scenes 1-5).<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The arrest of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Stafford,_2nd_Duke_of_Buckingham" title="Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham">Buckingham</a> referred to in <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a></i> ( Act IV, scene iv) happened near Wem.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ludlow castle is also referred to in the same play (Act II, scene ii).<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is a tradition that the Stanley monuments in <a href="/wiki/St_Bartholomew%27s_Church,_Tong" title="St Bartholomew's Church, Tong">St Bartholomew's Church, Tong</a> are the work of Shakespeare.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Other_playwrights">Other playwrights</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Other playwrights"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/William_Wycherley" title="William Wycherley">William Wycherley</a> was born at <a href="/wiki/Clive,_Shropshire" title="Clive, Shropshire">Clive</a> near Shrewsbury, although his birthplace has been said to be Trench Farm to the north near Wem later the birthplace of another writer, <a href="/wiki/John_Ireland_(writer)" title="John Ireland (writer)">John Ireland</a>, who was said to have been adopted by Wycherley's widow following the death of Ireland's parents.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The playwright <a href="/wiki/George_Farquhar" title="George Farquhar">George Farquhar</a>'s 1706 play <i>The Recruiting Officer</i> is set in Shrewsbury.<sup id="cite_ref-www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_collection_of_ball-dances_perform%27d_at_court_(1706).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/A_collection_of_ball-dances_perform%27d_at_court_%281706%29.jpg/220px-A_collection_of_ball-dances_perform%27d_at_court_%281706%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="323" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/A_collection_of_ball-dances_perform%27d_at_court_%281706%29.jpg/330px-A_collection_of_ball-dances_perform%27d_at_court_%281706%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/A_collection_of_ball-dances_perform%27d_at_court_%281706%29.jpg/440px-A_collection_of_ball-dances_perform%27d_at_court_%281706%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="536" data-file-height="788" /></a><figcaption><i>A Collection of Ball-dances Perform'd at Court</i>; all compos'd by Mr. Isaac, and writ down in characters, by John Weaver, dancing-master (1706)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Birthplace_of_English_ballet_and_pantomime">Birthplace of English ballet and pantomime</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Birthplace of English ballet and pantomime"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/John_Weaver_(dancer)" title="John Weaver (dancer)">John Weaver (dancer)</a></div> <p>The "father of English ballet",<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as the originator of pantomime,<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Weaver_(dancer)" title="John Weaver (dancer)">John Weaver</a>, developed his art in Shrewsbury. A second generation dancing master in the town,<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he founded English ballet, founded pantomime, and wrote on the philosophy, theology, statecraft and biology embedded in his era's understating of dance. Later in life he came to publish on the subject of dance, which he located in a wider understanding of his culture as representing a component of <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy" title="Ptolemy">Ptolemaic</a> <a href="/wiki/Harmony" title="Harmony">harmony</a> and an earnest part of the statecraft of his time.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Architecture">Architecture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Architecture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PortraitInigoJones.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/PortraitInigoJones.jpg/220px-PortraitInigoJones.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/PortraitInigoJones.jpg/330px-PortraitInigoJones.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/PortraitInigoJones.jpg/440px-PortraitInigoJones.jpg 2x" data-file-width="956" data-file-height="1280" /></a><figcaption>Inigo Jones was active in the county at the beginning of his career as an architect.</figcaption></figure> <p>The first known architectural project of <a href="/wiki/Inigo_Jones" title="Inigo Jones">Inigo Jones</a> is the Cotton monument in the Church of St Chad, <a href="/wiki/Norton_in_Hales" title="Norton in Hales">Norton-in-Hales</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are a number of important buildings in the county.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The world's first iron-framed building was built in Shrewsbury at the <a href="/wiki/Ditherington_Flax_Mill" title="Ditherington Flax Mill">Flaxmill Maltings</a>: the techniques pioneered in that building were necessary preconditions for <a href="/wiki/Skyscraper" title="Skyscraper">skyscrapers</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/John_Nash_(architect)" title="John Nash (architect)">Nash</a><sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Humphry_Repton" title="Humphry Repton">Repton</a><sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> were active at <a href="/wiki/Attingham_Park" title="Attingham Park">Attingham Park</a>. </p><p>A rare Anglo-Saxon hall, which was a high status building from the Anglo Saxon period, and possibly a feasting hall or palace, was excavated at nearby <a href="/wiki/Attingham_Park" title="Attingham Park">Attingham</a> in 2018; the dating window is between 400 AD and 1066.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film_and_television">Film and television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Film and television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:EbenezerScroogeGrave.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/EbenezerScroogeGrave.JPG/200px-EbenezerScroogeGrave.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/EbenezerScroogeGrave.JPG/300px-EbenezerScroogeGrave.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/EbenezerScroogeGrave.JPG/400px-EbenezerScroogeGrave.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2112" data-file-height="2816" /></a><figcaption>A 1984 film adaptation of <i><a href="/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol" title="A Christmas Carol">A Christmas Carol</a></i> was filmed in <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a>. Scrooge's fictional grave remains in the churchyard of <a href="/wiki/St_Chad%27s_Church,_Shrewsbury" title="St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury">St. Chad's Church.</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The landscape around <a href="/wiki/Hawkstone_Park" title="Hawkstone Park">Hawkstone Park</a> was used to represent parts of <a href="/wiki/Narnia" class="mw-redirect" title="Narnia">Narnia</a> in the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>'s TV adaptation of <a href="/wiki/C._S._Lewis" title="C. S. Lewis">C. S. Lewis</a>'s books in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lion,_the_Witch_and_the_Wardrobe" title="The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe">The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe</a></i> in 1988 and <i><a href="/wiki/Prince_Caspian" title="Prince Caspian">Prince Caspian</a></i> a year later. </p><p>The 1984 film version of Charles Dickens' <i><a href="/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_(1984_film)" title="A Christmas Carol (1984 film)">A Christmas Carol</a></i> was filmed in Shrewsbury. The 2005 sitcom <i><a href="/wiki/The_Green_Green_Grass" title="The Green Green Grass">The Green Green Grass</a></i> is set in Shropshire and was filmed near Ludlow.<sup id="cite_ref-Wodehouse_1977_195_76-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wodehouse_1977_195-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2007 film <i><a href="/wiki/Atonement_(2007_film)" title="Atonement (2007 film)">Atonement</a></i> was partly filmed in the county.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2023 BBC adaptation of <i><a href="/wiki/Bleak_House" title="Bleak House">Bleak House</a></i> was filmed partly in Shropshire.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Emblems">Emblems</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Emblems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Coat_of_arms">Coat of arms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Coat of arms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> The <a href="/wiki/Blazon" title="Blazon">blazon</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms" title="Coat of arms">coat of arms</a> of the county of Shropshire is:</p><blockquote><p><a href="/wiki/Erminois" class="mw-redirect" title="Erminois">erminois</a>, three <a href="/wiki/Pile_(heraldry)" title="Pile (heraldry)">pile</a> <a href="/wiki/Azure_(color)" title="Azure (color)">azure</a>, two issuant from the chief and one in base, each charged with a <a href="/wiki/Leopard" title="Leopard">leopard</a>'s face </p></blockquote><p>The arms were officially granted on 18 June 1896 and continued by the new authority in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The heads are often referred to as "the loggerheads". This is thought to originate from the practice of carving a leopard head as a <a href="/wiki/Motif_(visual_arts)" title="Motif (visual arts)">motif</a> on the head of the log used as a <a href="/wiki/Battering_ram" title="Battering ram">battering ram</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Flag">Flag</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Flag"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Shropshire" title="Flag of Shropshire">Flag of Shropshire</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Shropshire.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Flag_of_Shropshire.svg/200px-Flag_of_Shropshire.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Flag_of_Shropshire.svg/300px-Flag_of_Shropshire.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Flag_of_Shropshire.svg/400px-Flag_of_Shropshire.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="240" data-file-height="144" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Shropshire" title="Flag of Shropshire">Shropshire county flag</a>, based on the coat of arms granted in 1896</figcaption></figure> <p>The Shropshire county flag is a banner of arms taken from its coat of arms. It was registered with the <a href="/wiki/Flag_Institute" title="Flag Institute">Flag Institute</a> in March 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It shows three <a href="/wiki/Leopard" title="Leopard">leopard</a> heads ('loggerheads') on a gold and blue background. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="County_flower">County flower</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: County flower"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a national poll in 2002, conducted by <a href="/wiki/Plantlife" title="Plantlife">Plantlife International</a>, the round-leaved sundew (<i><a href="/wiki/Drosera_rotundifolia" title="Drosera rotundifolia">Drosera rotundifolia</a></i>) was chosen as Shropshire's <a href="/wiki/Floral_emblem" class="mw-redirect" title="Floral emblem">county flower</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The round-leaved sundew is a <a href="/wiki/Crimson" title="Crimson">crimson</a>-coloured <a href="/wiki/Carnivorous_plant" title="Carnivorous plant">insectivorous plant</a> that requires a <a href="/wiki/Bog" title="Bog">boggy</a> <a href="/wiki/Habitat" title="Habitat">habitat</a>. Due to <a href="/wiki/Habitat_loss" class="mw-redirect" title="Habitat loss">habitat loss</a> its range is now dramatically reduced,<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Shropshire's <a href="/wiki/Longmynd" class="mw-redirect" title="Longmynd">Longmynd</a> is one of the few areas in England where it can now be found.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shropshire_Day">Shropshire Day</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Shropshire Day"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Santa_Milburga_-_Juan_de_Roelas_20140706.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Santa_Milburga_-_Juan_de_Roelas_20140706.jpg/220px-Santa_Milburga_-_Juan_de_Roelas_20140706.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Santa_Milburga_-_Juan_de_Roelas_20140706.jpg/330px-Santa_Milburga_-_Juan_de_Roelas_20140706.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Santa_Milburga_-_Juan_de_Roelas_20140706.jpg/440px-Santa_Milburga_-_Juan_de_Roelas_20140706.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2252" data-file-height="2800" /></a><figcaption>Santa Milburga's day is the county's day.</figcaption></figure> <p>Shropshire's <a href="/wiki/List_of_county_days_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="List of county days in the United Kingdom">county day</a> is on 23 February, the <a href="/wiki/Feast_day" class="mw-redirect" title="Feast day">feast day</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mildburh" title="Mildburh">St Milburga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abbess" title="Abbess">abbess</a> of <a href="/wiki/Wenlock_Priory" title="Wenlock Priory">Wenlock Priory</a>. St Milburga was the daughter of <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Saxon">Anglo-Saxon</a> king <a href="/wiki/Merewalh" title="Merewalh">Merewalh</a>, who founded the abbey within his sub-kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Magons%C3%A6te" title="Magonsæte">Magonsæte</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The town adjoining the priory is now known as <a href="/wiki/Much_Wenlock" title="Much Wenlock">Much Wenlock</a>, and lies within the boundaries of the modern county of Shropshire. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Motto">Motto</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Motto"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shropshire's <a href="/wiki/Motto" title="Motto">motto</a> is <i>Floreat Salopia</i>, meaning "May Shropshire flourish". </p><p><a href="/wiki/British_Rail" title="British Rail">British Rail</a> loco No.31147 was named 'Floreat Salopia',<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shropshire is first recorded in the <i><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle" title="Anglo-Saxon Chronicle">Anglo-Saxon Chronicle</a></i> annal for 1006.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The origin of the name is the <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> <i>Scrobbesbyrigscīr</i>, meaning "<a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsburyshire</a>", "the shire of the fortified place in the scrublands" (or "shrubs", the modern derivative). Salop is an old name for Shropshire, historically used as an abbreviated form for post or telegrams; it is thought to derive from the Anglo-French "Salopesberia". </p><p>It is nowadays normally replaced by Shrops, although Shropshire residents are still referred to as Salopians.<sup id="cite_ref-shropshirehistory.com1_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shropshirehistory.com1-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Salop is also an alternative name for the county town, Shrewsbury,<sup id="cite_ref-shropshirehistory.com1_113-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shropshirehistory.com1-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which shares the motto <i>Floreat Salopia</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When a <a href="/wiki/County_council" title="County council">county council</a> for the county was first established in 1889, it was called Salop County Council.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1972" title="Local Government Act 1972">Local Government Act 1972</a>, Salop became the official name of the county. The name was not well-regarded locally,<sup id="cite_ref-shropshirehistory2_115-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shropshirehistory2-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a subsequent campaign led by a local councillor, John Kenyon, succeeded in having both the county and council renamed as Shropshire in 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This took effect from 1 April of that year.<sup id="cite_ref-LG-48124-3797_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LG-48124-3797-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="County_extent">County extent</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: County extent"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The border with Wales was defined in the 16th century – the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_(county_division)" title="Hundred (county division)">hundreds</a> of Oswestry (including <a href="/wiki/Oswestry" title="Oswestry">Oswestry</a> town) and Pimhill (including <a href="/wiki/Wem" title="Wem">Wem</a>) and part of <a href="/wiki/Chirbury" title="Chirbury">Chirbury</a> had prior to the <a href="/wiki/Laws_in_Wales_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws in Wales Act">Laws in Wales Act</a> formed various Lordships in the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Marches" title="Welsh Marches">Welsh Marches</a>. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Salopia_Atlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Salopia_Atlas.jpg/250px-Salopia_Atlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="191" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Salopia_Atlas.jpg/375px-Salopia_Atlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Salopia_Atlas.jpg/500px-Salopia_Atlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="9233" data-file-height="7066" /></a><figcaption>Hand-drawn map of Shropshire by Christopher Saxton from 1577</figcaption></figure> <p>The present day ceremonial county boundary is almost the same as the historic one. Notably there has been the removal of several <a href="/wiki/Exclave" class="mw-redirect" title="Exclave">exclaves</a> and <a href="/wiki/Enclave" class="mw-redirect" title="Enclave">enclaves</a>. The largest of the exclaves was <a href="/wiki/Halesowen" title="Halesowen">Halesowen</a>, which became part of <a href="/wiki/Worcestershire" title="Worcestershire">Worcestershire</a> in 1844 (and is now part of the <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(county)" title="West Midlands (county)">West Midlands</a> county), and the largest of the enclaves was Herefordshire's <a href="/wiki/Farlow,_Shropshire" title="Farlow, Shropshire">Farlow</a> in South Shropshire, also transferred in 1844, to Shropshire. Alterations have been made on Shropshire's border with all neighbouring English counties over the centuries. Gains have been made to the south of Ludlow (from Herefordshire), to the north of <a href="/wiki/Shifnal" title="Shifnal">Shifnal</a> (from Staffordshire) and to the north (from Cheshire) and south (from Staffordshire) of Market Drayton. The county has lost land in two places – to Staffordshire and Worcestershire.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Welsh_Bridge,_Shrewsbury.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Welsh_Bridge%2C_Shrewsbury.jpg/220px-Welsh_Bridge%2C_Shrewsbury.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Welsh_Bridge%2C_Shrewsbury.jpg/330px-Welsh_Bridge%2C_Shrewsbury.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Welsh_Bridge%2C_Shrewsbury.jpg/440px-Welsh_Bridge%2C_Shrewsbury.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2880" data-file-height="1800" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/River_Severn" title="River Severn">River Severn</a>, seen here in <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a>, is the primary watercourse in the county.</figcaption></figure> <p>Geographically, Shropshire is divisible into two distinct halves – north and south. The county has a highly diverse <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_Shropshire" title="Geology of Shropshire">geology</a>. The <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_Green_Belt" title="West Midlands Green Belt">West Midlands Green Belt</a> extends into eastern Shropshire, covering an area north from <a href="/wiki/Highley" title="Highley">Highley</a>, to the east of Bridgnorth, north to the eastern side of Telford, leaving Shropshire eastwards alongside the A5. This encompasses Shifnal, <a href="/wiki/Cosford,_Shropshire" title="Cosford, Shropshire">Cosford</a> and <a href="/wiki/Albrighton,_Bridgnorth" class="mw-redirect" title="Albrighton, Bridgnorth">Albrighton</a>, and various other villages paralleling <a href="/wiki/Dudley" title="Dudley">Dudley</a> and Wolverhampton.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="North_Shropshire">North Shropshire</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: North Shropshire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wem_High_Street_May_2020.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Wem_High_Street_May_2020.jpg/220px-Wem_High_Street_May_2020.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Wem_High_Street_May_2020.jpg/330px-Wem_High_Street_May_2020.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Wem_High_Street_May_2020.jpg/440px-Wem_High_Street_May_2020.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="2052" /></a><figcaption>Wem, traditionally the headquarters of government in North Shropshire, and home to the North Shropshire District Council while in existence</figcaption></figure> <p>The North Shropshire Plain is an extension of the flat and fertile <a href="/wiki/Cheshire_Plain" title="Cheshire Plain">Cheshire Plain</a>. It is here that most of the county's large towns, and population, are to be found. <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a> at the centre, <a href="/wiki/Oswestry" title="Oswestry">Oswestry</a> to the north west, <a href="/wiki/Whitchurch,_Shropshire" title="Whitchurch, Shropshire">Whitchurch</a> to the north, <a href="/wiki/Market_Drayton" title="Market Drayton">Market Drayton</a> to the north east, and <a href="/wiki/Newport,_Shropshire" title="Newport, Shropshire">Newport</a> and the Telford conurbation (Telford, <a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Shropshire" title="Wellington, Shropshire">Wellington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oakengates" title="Oakengates">Oakengates</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donnington,_Telford" title="Donnington, Telford">Donnington</a> and Shifnal) to the east. The land is fertile and agriculture remains a major feature of the landscape and the economy. The <a href="/wiki/River_Severn" title="River Severn">River Severn</a> runs through the lower half of this area (from Wales in the west, eastwards), through Shrewsbury and down the <a href="/wiki/Ironbridge_Gorge" title="Ironbridge Gorge">Ironbridge Gorge</a>, before heading south to <a href="/wiki/Bridgnorth" title="Bridgnorth">Bridgnorth</a>. </p><p>The area around <a href="/wiki/Oswestry" title="Oswestry">Oswestry</a> has more rugged geography than the North Shropshire Plain and the western half is over an extension of the <a href="/wiki/Wrexham" title="Wrexham">Wrexham</a> Coalfield and there are also copper deposits on the border with <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>. Mining of stone and sand <a href="/wiki/Construction_aggregate" title="Construction aggregate">aggregates</a> is still going on in <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_and_Atcham" title="Shrewsbury and Atcham">Mid-Shropshire</a>, notably on <a href="/wiki/Haughmond_Hill" title="Haughmond Hill">Haughmond Hill</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Bayston_Hill" title="Bayston Hill">Bayston Hill</a>, and around the village of <a href="/wiki/Condover" title="Condover">Condover</a>. Lead mining also took place at <a href="/wiki/Snailbeach" title="Snailbeach">Snailbeach</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Stiperstones" title="Stiperstones">Stiperstones</a>, but this has now ceased. Other primary industries, such as forestry and fishing, are to be found too. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rhekin_by_Wrodian.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Rhekin_by_Wrodian.jpg/220px-Rhekin_by_Wrodian.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Rhekin_by_Wrodian.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="309" data-file-height="207" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/The_Wrekin" title="The Wrekin">The Wrekin</a> is a prominent geographical feature located near Wellington in the east of the county.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/A5_road_(Great_Britain)" title="A5 road (Great Britain)">A5</a> and <a href="/wiki/M54_motorway" title="M54 motorway">M54</a> run from <a href="/wiki/Wolverhampton" title="Wolverhampton">Wolverhampton</a> (to the east of the county) across to Telford, around Shrewsbury parallel to the line of <a href="/wiki/Watling_Street" title="Watling Street">Watling Street</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Ancient_trackway" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient trackway">ancient trackway</a>. The A5 then turns north west to Oswestry, before heading north into Wales in the Wrexham area. This is an important artery and the corridor is where most of Shropshire's modern commerce and industry is found, notably in Telford new town. There are also a number of railway lines crossing over the area, which centre at Shrewsbury. To the south west of Telford, near the Ironbridge Gorge, was <a href="/wiki/Ironbridge_Power_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="Ironbridge Power Station">Ironbridge Power Station</a>. </p><p>The new town of Telford is built partly on a former industrial area centred on the <a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Shropshire_Coalfield&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="East Shropshire Coalfield (page does not exist)">East Shropshire Coalfield</a> as well as on former agricultural land. There are still many ex-colliery sites to be found in the area, as well as disused mine shafts. This industrial heritage is an important tourist attraction, as is seen by the growth of museums in the <a href="/wiki/Ironbridge" title="Ironbridge">Ironbridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coalbrookdale" title="Coalbrookdale">Coalbrookdale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Broseley" title="Broseley">Broseley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jackfield" title="Jackfield">Jackfield</a> area. <a href="/wiki/Blists_Hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Blists Hill">Blists Hill</a> museum and historical (<a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian era</a>) village is a major tourist attraction as well as the Iron Bridge itself. In addition, <a href="/wiki/Telford_Steam_Railway" title="Telford Steam Railway">Telford Steam Railway</a> runs from <a href="/wiki/Horsehay" title="Horsehay">Horsehay</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="South_Shropshire">South Shropshire</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: South Shropshire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For further information about the <a href="/wiki/Area_of_Outstanding_Natural_Beauty" title="Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty">Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty</a>, see <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Hills_AONB" class="mw-redirect" title="Shropshire Hills AONB">Shropshire Hills AONB</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:St_Leonard%27s,_Bridgnorth,_Shropshire.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/St_Leonard%27s%2C_Bridgnorth%2C_Shropshire.JPG/220px-St_Leonard%27s%2C_Bridgnorth%2C_Shropshire.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/St_Leonard%27s%2C_Bridgnorth%2C_Shropshire.JPG/330px-St_Leonard%27s%2C_Bridgnorth%2C_Shropshire.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/St_Leonard%27s%2C_Bridgnorth%2C_Shropshire.JPG/440px-St_Leonard%27s%2C_Bridgnorth%2C_Shropshire.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>St Leonard's Church is a prominent historical landmark in Bridgnorth.</figcaption></figure> <p>South Shropshire is more rural, with fewer settlements and no large towns, and its landscape differs greatly from that of North Shropshire. The area is dominated by significant hill ranges and river valleys, woods, pine forests and "batches", a colloquial term for small valleys. Farming is more pastoral than the arable found in the north of the county. The only substantial towns are <a href="/wiki/Bridgnorth" title="Bridgnorth">Bridgnorth</a>, with a population of around 12,000 people, <a href="/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow">Ludlow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Church_Stretton" title="Church Stretton">Church Stretton</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Hills_AONB" class="mw-redirect" title="Shropshire Hills AONB">Shropshire Hills AONB</a> is located in the south-west, covering an area of 810 km<sup>2</sup> (312 sq mi); it forms the only specifically protected area of the county. Inside this area is the popular <a href="/wiki/Long_Mynd" title="Long Mynd">Long Mynd</a>, a large plateau of 516 m (1,693 ft) overlooking <a href="/wiki/Church_Stretton" title="Church Stretton">Church Stretton</a> and to its west, the 536 metres (1,759 ft) rocky ridge of <a href="/wiki/Stiperstones" title="Stiperstones">Stiperstones</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_frosty_Ludlow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/A_frosty_Ludlow.jpg/220px-A_frosty_Ludlow.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/A_frosty_Ludlow.jpg/330px-A_frosty_Ludlow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/A_frosty_Ludlow.jpg/440px-A_frosty_Ludlow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="678" /></a><figcaption>The skyline of <a href="/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow">Ludlow</a>, one of south Shropshire's market towns, dominated by its sizeable castle and church</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/A49_road" title="A49 road">A49</a> is the main road through the area, running north to south, from Shrewsbury to <a href="/wiki/Herefordshire" title="Herefordshire">Herefordshire</a>. A railway line runs through the area on the same route as the A49 with stations at Church Stretton, <a href="/wiki/Craven_Arms" title="Craven Arms">Craven Arms</a> and Ludlow. The steam heritage <a href="/wiki/Severn_Valley_Railway" title="Severn Valley Railway">Severn Valley Railway</a> runs from Bridgnorth into Worcestershire along the <a href="/wiki/Severn_Valley_(England)" class="mw-redirect" title="Severn Valley (England)">Severn Valley</a>, terminating at <a href="/wiki/Kidderminster_Town_railway_station" title="Kidderminster Town railway station">Kidderminster</a>. </p><p>Because of its valley location and character, Church Stretton is sometimes called Little Switzerland,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is depicted in <i><a href="/wiki/Little_Switzerland_(landscape)" title="Little Switzerland (landscape)">Little Switzerland</a></i>. Nearby are the old mining and quarrying communities on the <a href="/wiki/Clee_Hills" title="Clee Hills">Clee Hills</a>, notable geological features in the <a href="/wiki/River_Onny" title="River Onny">Onny Valley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wenlock_Edge" title="Wenlock Edge">Wenlock Edge</a> and fertile farmland in <a href="/wiki/Corve_Dale" class="mw-redirect" title="Corve Dale">Corve Dale</a>. The <a href="/wiki/River_Teme" title="River Teme">River Teme</a> drains this part of the county, before flowing into Worcestershire to the south and joining the River Severn. </p><p>One of the Clee Hills, the <a href="/wiki/Brown_Clee_Hill" title="Brown Clee Hill">Brown Clee Hill</a>, is the county's highest peak at 540 m (1,770 ft).<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_English_counties_by_highest_point" class="mw-redirect" title="List of English counties by highest point">13th</a> highest <a href="/wiki/Lists_of_mountains_and_hills_in_the_British_Isles#County_tops" title="Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles">county top</a> in England. </p><p>South West Shropshire is a markedly rural part of the county, with <a href="/wiki/Clun_Forest" title="Clun Forest">Clun Forest</a>, <a href="/wiki/Offa%27s_Dyke" title="Offa's Dyke">Offa's Dyke</a>, the <a href="/wiki/River_Clun,_Shropshire" title="River Clun, Shropshire">River Clun</a> and the <a href="/wiki/River_Onny" title="River Onny">River Onny</a>. The small towns of <a href="/wiki/Clun" title="Clun">Clun</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bishop%27s_Castle" title="Bishop's Castle">Bishop's Castle</a> are in this area. To the south of Clun is the Welsh border town of <a href="/wiki/Knighton,_Powys" title="Knighton, Powys">Knighton</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Natural_regions">Natural regions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Natural regions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Carding_Mill_Valley_footpaths_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1095405.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Carding_Mill_Valley_footpaths_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1095405.jpg/220px-Carding_Mill_Valley_footpaths_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1095405.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Carding_Mill_Valley_footpaths_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1095405.jpg/330px-Carding_Mill_Valley_footpaths_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1095405.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Carding_Mill_Valley_footpaths_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1095405.jpg/440px-Carding_Mill_Valley_footpaths_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1095405.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="631" /></a><figcaption>The landscape of the <a href="/wiki/Long_Mynd" title="Long Mynd">Long Mynd</a>, to the west of <a href="/wiki/Church_Stretton" title="Church Stretton">Church Stretton</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Natural_England" title="Natural England">Natural England</a> recognised the following <a href="/wiki/National_character_area" class="mw-redirect" title="National character area">national character areas</a> that lie wholly or partially within Shropshire:<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Hills" title="Shropshire Hills">Shropshire Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire_and_Staffordshire_Plain&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shropshire and Staffordshire Plain (page does not exist)">Shropshire and Staffordshire Plain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oswestry_Uplands" title="Oswestry Uplands">Oswestry Uplands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mid_Severn_Sandstone_Plateau" title="Mid Severn Sandstone Plateau">Mid Severn Sandstone Plateau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teme_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Teme Valley">Teme Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herefordshire_Lowlands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Herefordshire Lowlands (page does not exist)">Herefordshire Lowlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clun" title="Clun">Clun</a> and North West Herefordshire Hills</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whixall_Moss" class="mw-redirect" title="Whixall Moss">Whixall Moss</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Harper_Adams_Agricultural_College_-_geograph.org.uk_-_423503.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Harper_Adams_Agricultural_College_-_geograph.org.uk_-_423503.jpg/220px-Harper_Adams_Agricultural_College_-_geograph.org.uk_-_423503.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Harper_Adams_Agricultural_College_-_geograph.org.uk_-_423503.jpg/330px-Harper_Adams_Agricultural_College_-_geograph.org.uk_-_423503.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Harper_Adams_Agricultural_College_-_geograph.org.uk_-_423503.jpg/440px-Harper_Adams_Agricultural_College_-_geograph.org.uk_-_423503.jpg 2x" data-file-width="506" data-file-height="332" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Harper_Adams_University" title="Harper Adams University">Harper Adams University</a>, where on 10 January 1982 the lowest temperature ever in England was recorded</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Climate" title="Climate">climate</a> of Shropshire is moderate. Rainfall averages 760 to 1,000 mm (30 to 40 in), influenced by being in the <a href="/wiki/Rainshadow" class="mw-redirect" title="Rainshadow">rainshadow</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Cambrian_Mountains" title="Cambrian Mountains">Cambrian Mountains</a> from warm, moist <a href="/wiki/Precipitation_(meteorology)#Frontal_activity" class="mw-redirect" title="Precipitation (meteorology)">frontal systems</a> of the Atlantic Ocean which bring generally light precipitation in Autumn and Spring.<sup id="cite_ref-encarta_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-encarta-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The hilly areas in the south and west are much colder in the winter, due to their high elevation, they share a similar climate to that of the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Marches" title="Welsh Marches">Welsh Marches</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mid-Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Mid-Wales">Mid-Wales</a>. The flat northern plain in the north and east has a similar climate to that of the rest of the <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(region)" title="West Midlands (region)">West Midlands</a>. </p><p>Being rural and inland, temperatures can fall more dramatically on clear winter nights than in many other parts of England. It was at <a href="/wiki/Harper_Adams_University" title="Harper Adams University">Harper Adams University</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Edgmond,_Shropshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgmond, Shropshire">Edgmond</a>, where on 10 January 1982 the lowest temperature weather record for England was broken (and is kept to this day): −26.1 °C (−15.0 °F). </p><p>The only major Met Office weather station in the county is located at <a href="/wiki/Shawbury" title="Shawbury">Shawbury</a>, which is in the north, between <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Market_Drayton" title="Market Drayton">Market Drayton</a>. </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for <a href="/wiki/Shawbury" title="Shawbury">Shawbury</a><sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Location_identifier#WMO_station_identifiers" title="Location identifier">WMO ID</a>: 03414; coordinates <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Shropshire&params=52.79469_N_2.66473_W_type:landmark_region:GB&title=Met+Office+Shawbury"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">52°47′41″N</span> <span class="longitude">2°39′53″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">52.79469°N 2.66473°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">52.79469; -2.66473</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Met Office Shawbury</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span>; elevation: 72 m (236 ft); 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1960–present </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFB973; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.6<br />(58.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFA64D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.4<br />(63.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF8914; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.5<br />(70.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF7000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.2<br />(77.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF6600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.7<br />(80.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF4600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.2<br />(88.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF2700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.7<br />(96.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF2D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.9<br />(94.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF5200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.6<br />(85.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF5C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.1<br />(82.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF9F3F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.4<br />(65.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFB368; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.4<br />(59.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF2700; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">35.7<br />(96.3) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFEAD5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.5<br />(45.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.1<br />(46.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFD7AF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.3<br />(50.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFC387; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.2<br />(55.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFAD5C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.3<br />(61.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF9A35; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.1<br />(66.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF8C1A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.1<br />(70.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF8F1F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.7<br />(69.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFA143; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.1<br />(64.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFBC79; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.2<br />(57.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFD7AF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.3<br />(50.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.7<br />(45.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFBE7D; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">13.9<br />(57.0) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.3<br />(39.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFFEFD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.6<br />(40.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFF2E6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.3<br />(43.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFE2C6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.6<br />(47.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFCE9E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.5<br />(52.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFBA76; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.4<br />(57.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFAD5C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.3<br />(61.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFAF60; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.0<br />(60.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFBF80; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.7<br />(56.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFD6AD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.4<br />(50.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFEEDD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.9<br />(44.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.5<br />(40.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFDAB5; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">9.8<br />(49.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #EDEDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.2<br />(34.2) </td> <td style="background: #EDEDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.2<br />(34.2) </td> <td style="background: #F3F3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.3<br />(36.1) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.9<br />(39.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFEFDF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.8<br />(44.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFDBB8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.6<br />(49.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFCE9E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.5<br />(52.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFCF9F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.4<br />(52.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFDDBC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.3<br />(48.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFF0E2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.6<br />(43.9) </td> <td style="background: #F9F9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.5<br />(38.3) </td> <td style="background: #EDEDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.3<br />(34.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFF6EE; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">5.7<br />(42.3) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #7373FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−21.4<br />(−6.5) </td> <td style="background: #A1A1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−12.9<br />(8.8) </td> <td style="background: #A4A4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−12.2<br />(10.0) </td> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−5.9<br />(21.4) </td> <td style="background: #D4D4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−3.3<br />(26.1) </td> <td style="background: #E4E4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−0.5<br />(31.1) </td> <td style="background: #F4F4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.5<br />(36.5) </td> <td style="background: #EBEBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.8<br />(33.4) </td> <td style="background: #D9D9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−2.5<br />(27.5) </td> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−5.9<br />(21.4) </td> <td style="background: #A3A3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−12.5<br />(9.5) </td> <td style="background: #5E5EFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">−25.2<br />(−13.4) </td> <td style="background: #5E5EFF; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−25.2<br />(−13.4) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #A9FFA9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57.4<br />(2.26) </td> <td style="background: #B8FFB8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43.3<br />(1.70) </td> <td style="background: #BEFFBE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43.4<br />(1.71) </td> <td style="background: #B6FFB6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47.1<br />(1.85) </td> <td style="background: #AFFFAF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">53.6<br />(2.11) </td> <td style="background: #A4FFA4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59.0<br />(2.32) </td> <td style="background: #A9FFA9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57.6<br />(2.27) </td> <td style="background: #9FFF9F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.2<br />(2.53) </td> <td style="background: #A0FFA0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">61.1<br />(2.41) </td> <td style="background: #98FF98; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68.8<br />(2.71) </td> <td style="background: #A1FFA1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">60.8<br />(2.39) </td> <td style="background: #9CFF9C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">66.3<br />(2.61) </td> <td style="background: #A8FFA8; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">682.5<br />(26.87) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average snowfall mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #D8D8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26<br />(1.0) </td> <td style="background: #DFDFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19<br />(0.7) </td> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3<br />(0.1) </td> <td style="background: #F8F8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4<br />(0.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #D6D6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27<br />(1.1) </td> <td style="background: #F4F4FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">80<br />(3.1) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average precipitation days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 1.0 mm)</span> </th> <td style="background: #6969FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.1 </td> <td style="background: #6C6CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.8 </td> <td style="background: #8181FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.2 </td> <td style="background: #7A7AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.4 </td> <td style="background: #8383FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.0 </td> <td style="background: #7E7EFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.1 </td> <td style="background: #7D7DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.5 </td> <td style="background: #7D7DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.5 </td> <td style="background: #7F7FFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.0 </td> <td style="background: #7373FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.3 </td> <td style="background: #5F5FFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">12.5 </td> <td style="background: #5D5DFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13.1 </td> <td style="background: #7575FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">131.6 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average snowy days </th> <td style="background: #D9D9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.0 </td> <td style="background: #D7D7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.9 </td> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.1 </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.3 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.2 </td> <td style="background: #EBEBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.6 </td> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">9.1 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Relative_humidity" class="mw-redirect" title="Relative humidity">relative humidity</a> (%) </th> <td style="background: #0000A5; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">90 </td> <td style="background: #0000B1; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">87 </td> <td style="background: #0000BC; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">84 </td> <td style="background: #0000C0; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">83 </td> <td style="background: #0000C4; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">82 </td> <td style="background: #0000BC; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">84 </td> <td style="background: #0000C0; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">83 </td> <td style="background: #0000C0; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">83 </td> <td style="background: #0000B5; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">86 </td> <td style="background: #0000AD; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">88 </td> <td style="background: #0000A5; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">90 </td> <td style="background: #0000A5; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">90 </td> <td style="background: #0000B5; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">86 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean monthly <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a> </th> <td style="background: #606060; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">52.8 </td> <td style="background: #969696; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">74.9 </td> <td style="background: #B3B36E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">114.6 </td> <td style="background: #CACA00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">158.1 </td> <td style="background: #D6D600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">194.9 </td> <td style="background: #D6D600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">187.5 </td> <td style="background: #D6D600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">193.3 </td> <td style="background: #CCCC00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">168.0 </td> <td style="background: #BFBF2B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">134.7 </td> <td style="background: #ACAC9D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">97.5 </td> <td style="background: #747474; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">61.8 </td> <td style="background: #5B5B5B; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">49.9 </td> <td style="background: #B9B94E; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,487.8 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily <a href="/wiki/Daytime" title="Daytime">daylight hours</a> </th> <td style="background: #E5E500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.3 </td> <td style="background: #F1F111; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.9 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF34; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.9 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF58; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF77; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.8 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF88; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.8 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF80; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.3 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF64; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.7 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF42; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.7 </td> <td style="background: #F6F61D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.6 </td> <td style="background: #E8E800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.7 </td> <td style="background: #E1E100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.7 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF3B; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">12.3 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Ultraviolet_index" title="Ultraviolet index">ultraviolet index</a> </th> <td style="background: #3EA72D; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">2 </td> <td style="background: #3EA72D; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">2 </td> <td style="background: #3EA72D; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">2 </td> <td style="background: #FFF300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3 </td> <td style="background: #FFF300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4 </td> <td style="background: #FFF300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4 </td> <td style="background: #FFF300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4 </td> <td style="background: #FFF300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4 </td> <td style="background: #FFF300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3 </td> <td style="background: #FFF300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3 </td> <td style="background: #3EA72D; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">2 </td> <td style="background: #3EA72D; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">2 </td> <td style="background: #FFF300; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">3 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 1: <a href="/wiki/Met_Office" title="Met Office">Met Office</a><sup id="cite_ref-Met_Averages_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Met_Averages-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/European_Climate_Assessment_and_Dataset" title="European Climate Assessment and Dataset">European Climate Assessment and Dataset</a><sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 2: WeatherAtlas<sup id="cite_ref-Weather-Atlas_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weather-Atlas-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Geology">Geology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Geology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_Shropshire" title="Geology of Shropshire">Geology of Shropshire</a></div> <p>Shropshire has a huge range of different types of rocks, stretching from the <a href="/wiki/Precambrian" title="Precambrian">Precambrian</a> until the <a href="/wiki/Holocene" title="Holocene">Holocene</a>. In the northern part of the county there are examples of <a href="/wiki/Jurassic" title="Jurassic">Jurassic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carboniferous" title="Carboniferous">Carboniferous</a>, <a href="/wiki/Permian" title="Permian">Permian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Triassic" title="Triassic">Triassic</a>. Centrally, Precambrian, <a href="/wiki/Cambrian" title="Cambrian">Cambrian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ordovician" title="Ordovician">Ordovician</a>, Carboniferous and Permian predominate. And in the south it is predominantly <a href="/wiki/Silurian" title="Silurian">Silurian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quaternary" title="Quaternary">Quaternary</a>. Shropshire has a number of areas with Silurian and Ordovician rocks, where a number of <a href="/wiki/Seashell" title="Seashell">shells</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coral" title="Coral">corals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Trilobite" title="Trilobite">trilobites</a> can be found. Mortimer Forest and Wenlock Edge are examples where a number of <a href="/wiki/Fossil" title="Fossil">fossils</a> can be found. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Statistical">Statistical</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Statistical"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For <a href="/wiki/Eurostat" title="Eurostat">Eurostat</a> purposes, the county (less the unitary district of <a href="/wiki/Telford_and_Wrekin" title="Telford and Wrekin">Telford and Wrekin</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/NUTS_statistical_regions_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="NUTS statistical regions of the United Kingdom">NUTS 3 region</a> (code UKG22). The two Shropshire unitary areas (covering all of the ceremonial county), together with the authorities covering the ceremonial county of Staffordshire, comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lyth_Hill_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Lyth_Hill_01.jpg/220px-Lyth_Hill_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Lyth_Hill_01.jpg/330px-Lyth_Hill_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Lyth_Hill_01.jpg/440px-Lyth_Hill_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Rural Shropshire, <a href="/wiki/Bayston_Hill" title="Bayston Hill">Lyth Hill</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Rayburn_Range" class="mw-redirect" title="Rayburn Range">Rayburn Range</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aga_Rangemaster_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Aga Rangemaster Group">Aga Rangemaster Group</a> are based in <a href="/wiki/Telford" title="Telford">Telford</a>; the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Dispensary_for_Sick_Animals" title="People's Dispensary for Sick Animals">PDSA</a> is in <a href="/wiki/St_George%27s_and_Priorslee" title="St George's and Priorslee">St George's and Priorslee</a>, Telford. The <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)">MoD</a> have a significant depot at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lilleshall_and_Donnington&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lilleshall and Donnington (page does not exist)">Lilleshall and Donnington</a>. Here are also high-technology industries such as <a href="/wiki/Unimation" title="Unimation">Unimation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nikon" title="Nikon">Nikon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hitachi_Maxell" class="mw-redirect" title="Hitachi Maxell">Hitachi Maxell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ricoh" title="Ricoh">Ricoh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Capgemini" title="Capgemini">Capgemini</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Electronic_Data_Systems" title="Electronic Data Systems">Electronic Data Systems</a>. In <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hadley_Castle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hadley Castle (page does not exist)">Hadley Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Denso" title="Denso">Denso</a> Manufacturing UK Ltd make <a href="/wiki/Car_air_conditioning" class="mw-redirect" title="Car air conditioning">car air-conditioning systems</a> and <a href="/wiki/GKN" title="GKN">GKN</a> Wheels make car wheels. <a href="/wiki/Makita" title="Makita">Makita</a> Manufacturing Europe at Hortonwood, Telford is the only plant in the UK that makes <a href="/wiki/Power_tool" title="Power tool">power tools</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/M%C3%BCller_(company)" title="Müller (company)">Müller Dairy Ltd</a> is based in <a href="/wiki/Market_Drayton" title="Market Drayton">Market Drayton</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Palethorpes" title="Palethorpes">Palethorpes</a>, part of <a href="/wiki/Pork_Farms" title="Pork Farms">Pork Farms</a> which makes own-label sausages. At <a href="/wiki/Crudgington" title="Crudgington">Crudgington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dairy_Crest" class="mw-redirect" title="Dairy Crest">Dairy Crest</a> made Country Life butter and <a href="/wiki/Clover_(spread)" title="Clover (spread)">Clover</a> until February 2015, and have their Technical Centre. Anglo Beef Processors (<a href="/wiki/ABP_Food_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="ABP Food Group">ABP Food Group</a>) are at <a href="/wiki/Harlescott" title="Harlescott">Harlescott</a> in the north of Shrewsbury. <a href="/wiki/Uniq_plc" title="Uniq plc">Uniq plc</a> have a plant at <a href="/wiki/Minsterley" title="Minsterley">Minsterley</a> and make chilled desserts for Tesco. </p><p>BT have their <a href="/wiki/National_Network_Management_Centre" title="National Network Management Centre">National Network Management Centre</a> (Whittington House) in <a href="/wiki/Whittington,_Shropshire" title="Whittington, Shropshire">Whittington, Shropshire</a>. Military helicopter training in the UK takes place at <a href="/wiki/RAF_Shawbury" title="RAF Shawbury">RAF Shawbury</a>, alongside training for the RAF's <a href="/wiki/Air_traffic_controller" title="Air traffic controller">air traffic controllers</a> (ATC). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Towns_and_villages">Towns and villages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Towns and villages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Shropshire" title="List of places in Shropshire">List of places in Shropshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Category:Towns_in_Shropshire" title="Category:Towns in Shropshire">Category:Towns in Shropshire</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Category:Villages_in_Shropshire" title="Category:Villages in Shropshire">Category:Villages in Shropshire</a></div> <p>Shropshire has no <a href="/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="City status in the United Kingdom">cities</a>, but 22 towns, of which two can be considered major. <a href="/wiki/Telford" title="Telford">Telford</a> is the largest town in the county with a population of 138,241 (which is approximately 30% of the total Salopian populace); whereas the <a href="/wiki/County_town" title="County town">county town</a> of <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a> has a lower, but still sizeable population of 71,715 (15%). The other sizeable towns are <a href="/wiki/Oswestry" title="Oswestry">Oswestry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bridgnorth" title="Bridgnorth">Bridgnorth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newport,_Shropshire" title="Newport, Shropshire">Newport</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow">Ludlow</a>. The historic town of <a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Shropshire" title="Wellington, Shropshire">Wellington</a> now makes up part of the Telford conurbation. The majority of the other settlements can be classed as villages or towns such as <a href="/wiki/Much_Wenlock" title="Much Wenlock">Much Wenlock</a> or <a href="/wiki/Whitchurch,_Shropshire" title="Whitchurch, Shropshire">Whitchurch</a>. Several villages have larger populations than the smallest town, <a href="/wiki/Clun" title="Clun">Clun</a>. The largest of these, <a href="/wiki/Bayston_Hill" title="Bayston Hill">Bayston Hill</a>, is the 10th most populous settlement in the county. The names of several villages close to the border are of <a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a> origin, such as <a href="/wiki/Gobowen" title="Gobowen">Gobowen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Selattyn" title="Selattyn">Selattyn</a>. </p><p>The larger settlements are primarily concentrated in a central belt that roughly follows the <a href="/wiki/A5_road_(Great_Britain)" title="A5 road (Great Britain)">A5</a>/<a href="/wiki/M54_motorway" title="M54 motorway">M54</a> roadway. Other settlements are concentrated on rivers, for example Bridgnorth and <a href="/wiki/Ironbridge" title="Ironbridge">Ironbridge</a> on the Severn, or Ludlow on the Teme, as these waterways were historically vital for trade and a supply of water.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center;"> <p><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Central_Telford_Skyline_-_geograph.org.uk_-_75673.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Telford"><img alt="Telford" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Central_Telford_Skyline_-_geograph.org.uk_-_75673.jpg/150px-Central_Telford_Skyline_-_geograph.org.uk_-_75673.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Central_Telford_Skyline_-_geograph.org.uk_-_75673.jpg/225px-Central_Telford_Skyline_-_geograph.org.uk_-_75673.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Central_Telford_Skyline_-_geograph.org.uk_-_75673.jpg/300px-Central_Telford_Skyline_-_geograph.org.uk_-_75673.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="310" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Telford" title="Telford">Telford</a><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Old_Shrewsbruy_Market_Hall_-England.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Shrewsbury"><img alt="Shrewsbury" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Old_Shrewsbruy_Market_Hall_-England.jpg/150px-Old_Shrewsbruy_Market_Hall_-England.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="106" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Old_Shrewsbruy_Market_Hall_-England.jpg/225px-Old_Shrewsbruy_Market_Hall_-England.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Old_Shrewsbruy_Market_Hall_-England.jpg/300px-Old_Shrewsbruy_Market_Hall_-England.jpg 2x" data-file-width="612" data-file-height="434" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Oswestry,_Shropshire.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Oswestry"><img alt="Oswestry" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Oswestry%2C_Shropshire.jpg/150px-Oswestry%2C_Shropshire.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Oswestry%2C_Shropshire.jpg/225px-Oswestry%2C_Shropshire.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Oswestry%2C_Shropshire.jpg/300px-Oswestry%2C_Shropshire.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1748" data-file-height="1163" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Oswestry" title="Oswestry">Oswestry</a><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bridgnorth_-_Old_Market_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1323006.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bridgnorth"><img alt="Bridgnorth" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Bridgnorth_-_Old_Market_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1323006.jpg/150px-Bridgnorth_-_Old_Market_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1323006.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Bridgnorth_-_Old_Market_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1323006.jpg/225px-Bridgnorth_-_Old_Market_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1323006.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Bridgnorth_-_Old_Market_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1323006.jpg/300px-Bridgnorth_-_Old_Market_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1323006.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="486" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Bridgnorth" title="Bridgnorth">Bridgnorth</a><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Parish_Church_of_St._Nicholas,_Newport,_Shropshire.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Newport"><img alt="Newport" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Parish_Church_of_St._Nicholas%2C_Newport%2C_Shropshire.jpg/150px-Parish_Church_of_St._Nicholas%2C_Newport%2C_Shropshire.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="94" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Parish_Church_of_St._Nicholas%2C_Newport%2C_Shropshire.jpg/225px-Parish_Church_of_St._Nicholas%2C_Newport%2C_Shropshire.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Parish_Church_of_St._Nicholas%2C_Newport%2C_Shropshire.jpg/300px-Parish_Church_of_St._Nicholas%2C_Newport%2C_Shropshire.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="400" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Newport,_Shropshire" title="Newport, Shropshire">Newport</a><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ludlow,_Shropshire.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ludlow"><img alt="Ludlow" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Ludlow%2C_Shropshire.jpg/150px-Ludlow%2C_Shropshire.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Ludlow%2C_Shropshire.jpg/225px-Ludlow%2C_Shropshire.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Ludlow%2C_Shropshire.jpg/300px-Ludlow%2C_Shropshire.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1365" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow">Ludlow</a><br /> </p> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b>Ceremonial county of Shropshire</b><br /><i><a href="/wiki/Telford_and_Wrekin" title="Telford and Wrekin">Telford and Wrekin</a> shown within</i><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ShropshireCountyMap2009.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/ShropshireCountyMap2009.jpg/350px-ShropshireCountyMap2009.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="392" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/ShropshireCountyMap2009.jpg/525px-ShropshireCountyMap2009.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/ShropshireCountyMap2009.jpg/700px-ShropshireCountyMap2009.jpg 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="840" /></a></span><br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:blue; color:white;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Shropshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Geography of Shropshire">Rivers</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#3399FF; color:black;"> </span> Motorways, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:green; color:white;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain_road_numbering_scheme" title="Great Britain road numbering scheme">'A' Roads</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Red; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Shropshire" title="List of places in Shropshire">Settlements</a> </td> <td><b>Largest settlements (by population) 2011:</b><br /> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Telford" title="Telford">Telford</a></b> (138,241)<br /> <b><a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a></b> (71,715)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Oswestry" title="Oswestry">Oswestry</a> (17,613)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Bridgnorth" title="Bridgnorth">Bridgnorth</a> (12,212)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Newport,_Shropshire" title="Newport, Shropshire">Newport</a> (11,387)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow">Ludlow</a> (10,500)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Market_Drayton" title="Market Drayton">Market Drayton</a> (10,407)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Whitchurch,_Shropshire" title="Whitchurch, Shropshire">Whitchurch</a> (9,781)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Shifnal" title="Shifnal">Shifnal</a> (7,094)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Bayston_Hill" title="Bayston Hill">Bayston Hill</a> (village) (5,079)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Wem" title="Wem">Wem</a> (5,142)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Broseley" title="Broseley">Broseley</a> (4,929) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Church_Stretton" title="Church Stretton">Church Stretton</a> (4,671)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Albrighton,_Bridgnorth" class="mw-redirect" title="Albrighton, Bridgnorth">Albrighton</a> (village) (4,157) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Ellesmere,_Shropshire" title="Ellesmere, Shropshire">Ellesmere</a> (3,835)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Highley" title="Highley">Highley</a> (village) (3,605) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Pontesbury" title="Pontesbury">Pontesbury</a> (village) (3,500) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Shawbury" title="Shawbury">Shawbury</a> (village) (2,872) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Prees,_Shropshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Prees, Shropshire">Prees</a> (village) (2,688) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Much_Wenlock" title="Much Wenlock">Much Wenlock</a> (2,605)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Craven_Arms" title="Craven Arms">Craven Arms</a> (2,289)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Cleobury_Mortimer" title="Cleobury Mortimer">Cleobury Mortimer</a> (1,962) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Bishop%27s_Castle" title="Bishop's Castle">Bishop's Castle</a> (1,893) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Baschurch" title="Baschurch">Baschurch</a> (village) (1,475) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Ruyton-XI-Towns" title="Ruyton-XI-Towns">Ruyton-XI-Towns</a> (village) (1,379) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Clun" title="Clun">Clun</a> (680)<br /> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The town of <a href="/wiki/Telford" title="Telford">Telford</a> was created by the merger and expansion of older, small towns to the north and east of <a href="/wiki/The_Wrekin" title="The Wrekin">The Wrekin</a>. These towns now have sizeable populations that now make up the population of Telford: <a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Shropshire" title="Wellington, Shropshire">Wellington</a> (20,430),<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Madeley,_Shropshire" title="Madeley, Shropshire">Madeley</a> (17,935),<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Dawley" title="Dawley">Dawley</a> (11,399)<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Oakengates" title="Oakengates">Oakengates</a> (8,517),<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the Telford and Wrekin borough towns incentive aims to make Oakengates into the largest of the towns.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_(Detached)" title="Shropshire (Detached)">Historically</a>, all or parts of the towns of <a href="/wiki/Halesowen" title="Halesowen">Halesowen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Smethwick" title="Smethwick">Smethwick</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oldbury,_West_Midlands" title="Oldbury, West Midlands">Oldbury</a>, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Quinton,_Birmingham" title="Quinton, Birmingham">Quinton</a> suburb of <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, were in Shropshire.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_local_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="Shropshire local elections">Shropshire local elections</a> and <a href="/wiki/Telford_and_Wrekin_local_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="Telford and Wrekin local elections">Telford and Wrekin local elections</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:134px;max-width:134px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:132px;max-width:132px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ShropshireParliamentaryConstituency2001Results.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/ShropshireParliamentaryConstituency2001Results.svg/130px-ShropshireParliamentaryConstituency2001Results.svg.png" decoding="async" width="130" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/ShropshireParliamentaryConstituency2001Results.svg/195px-ShropshireParliamentaryConstituency2001Results.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/ShropshireParliamentaryConstituency2001Results.svg/260px-ShropshireParliamentaryConstituency2001Results.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="189" data-file-height="213" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Election results 2001</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:132px;max-width:132px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ShropshireParliamentaryConstituency2005Results.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/ShropshireParliamentaryConstituency2005Results.svg/130px-ShropshireParliamentaryConstituency2005Results.svg.png" decoding="async" width="130" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/ShropshireParliamentaryConstituency2005Results.svg/195px-ShropshireParliamentaryConstituency2005Results.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/ShropshireParliamentaryConstituency2005Results.svg/260px-ShropshireParliamentaryConstituency2005Results.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="189" data-file-height="213" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Election results 2005 & 2010</div></div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Parliamentary_constituencies">Parliamentary constituencies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Parliamentary constituencies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The county has five <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_constituencies_in_Shropshire" title="Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire">parliamentary constituencies</a>. In the July 2024 General Election, two returned Conservatives MPS, two Labour and one Liberal Democrat. </p><p>At the 2005 general election, four returned Conservative MPs, Telford, returned a Labour MP. This is a marked change from the 2001 general election result, where the county returned only one Conservative, three Labour and a Liberal Democrat MP to the House of Commons (see maps to the right) (Labour = Red, Conservatives = Blue and Liberal Democrats = Orange). </p><p>The current MPs of Shropshire, following the 2024 General Election, are: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shaun_Davies_(politician)" title="Shaun Davies (politician)">Shaun Davies</a>, Labour, <a href="/wiki/Telford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Telford (UK Parliament constituency)">Telford</a> (covering the town of <a href="/wiki/Telford" title="Telford">Telford</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Morgan_(politician)" title="Helen Morgan (politician)">Helen Morgan</a>, Liberal Democrat, <a href="/wiki/North_Shropshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)">North Shropshire</a> (covering the former <a href="/wiki/North_Shropshire" title="North Shropshire">North Shropshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oswestry_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Oswestry (borough)">Oswestry</a> districts, now coextensive with the North area committee)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Anderson_(politician)" title="Stuart Anderson (politician)">Stuart Anderson</a>, Conservative, <a href="/wiki/South_Shropshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)">South Shropshire</a> (covering the former <a href="/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow">Ludlow</a> and (the majority of) Bridgnorth districts; now co-extensive with the South area committee except for the part covered by The Wrekin constituency)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julia_Buckley" title="Julia Buckley">Julia Buckley</a>, Labour, <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Shrewsbury (UK Parliament constituency)">Shrewsbury</a> (covering the former <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_and_Atcham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Shrewsbury and Atcham (UK Parliament constituency)">Shrewsbury and Atcham</a> district; now co-extensive with the Central area committee)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Pritchard_(politician)" title="Mark Pritchard (politician)">Mark Pritchard</a>, Conservative, <a href="/wiki/The_Wrekin_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="The Wrekin (UK Parliament constituency)">The Wrekin</a> (covering <a href="/wiki/Telford_and_Wrekin" title="Telford and Wrekin">Telford and Wrekin</a> borough, minus Telford, and including a small area of the former Bridgnorth district/South area committee)</li></ul> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Constituency </th> <th>1992 </th> <th>1997 </th> <th>2001 </th> <th>2005 </th> <th>2010 </th> <th>2015 </th> <th>2017 </th> <th>2021 </th></tr> <tr> <td>Ludlow </td> <td colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:blue; color:white;"> CON </span> Christopher Gill </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:orange; color:black;"> <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">LD</a> </span> Matthew Green </td> <td colspan="5"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:blue; color:white;"> CON </span> <b>Philip Dunne</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td>North Shropshire </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:blue; color:white;"> CON </span> John Biffen </td> <td colspan="6"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:blue; color:white;"> CON </span> Owen Paterson </td> <td colspan="1"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:orange; color:black;"> <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">LD</a> </span> <b>Helen Morgan</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Shrewsbury & Atcham </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:blue; color:white;"> CON </span> Derek Conway </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:red; color:black;color:white;"> LAB </span> Paul Marsden </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:orange; color:black;"> LD </span> Paul Marsden </td> <td colspan="5"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:blue; color:white;"> CON </span> <b>Daniel Kawczynski</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Telford </td> <td rowspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:red; color:black;color:white;"> LAB </span> Bruce Grocott* </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:red; color:black;color:white;"> LAB </span> Bruce Grocott </td> <td colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:red; color:black;color:white;"> LAB </span> David Wright </td> <td colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:blue; color:white;"> CON </span> <b>Lucy Allan</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Wrekin </td> <td colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:red; color:black;color:white;"> LAB </span> Peter Bradley </td> <td colspan="5"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:blue; color:white;"> CON </span> <b>Mark Pritchard</b> </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>Note (*), <a href="/wiki/The_Wrekin_(historic_UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Wrekin (historic UK Parliament constituency)">The Wrekin (historic UK Parliament constituency)</a> was split at the 1997 election.</li></ul> <p>2021 refers to the by election in North Shropshire only. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Divisions_and_environs">Divisions and environs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Divisions and environs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_civil_parishes_in_Shropshire" title="List of civil parishes in Shropshire">List of civil parishes in Shropshire</a></div> <p>Most of the <a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">ceremonial county</a> of Shropshire is covered for purposes of local government by <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Council" title="Shropshire Council">Shropshire Council</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authority" title="Unitary authority">unitary authority</a> established in 2009. <a href="/wiki/Telford_and_Wrekin" title="Telford and Wrekin">Telford and Wrekin</a> is a unitary authority, with <a href="/wiki/Borough_status" class="mw-redirect" title="Borough status">borough status</a>, which forms part of the county for various functions such as <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Lieutenant">Lord Lieutenant</a> but is a separate local authority from Shropshire Council. Many services are shared by both authorities, such as the <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" title="Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service">fire and rescue service</a>, and the two authorities co-operate on some projects such as mapping flood risk. </p><p>The new unitary authority for Shropshire, <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Council" title="Shropshire Council">Shropshire Council</a>, divides the county into three areas, each with its own <a href="/wiki/Area_committee" title="Area committee">area committee</a>: North, Central and South. These area committees deal with town and country planning matters. </p><p>With the parishing of the formerly <a href="/wiki/Unparished_area" title="Unparished area">unparished area</a> of Shrewsbury in 2008, the entire ceremonial county is now <a href="/wiki/Civil_parishes_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil parishes in England">parished</a>. The sizes of parishes varies enormously in terms of area covered and population resident. Shrewsbury is the most populous parish in the county (and one of the most populous in England) with over 70,000 residents, whilst <a href="/wiki/Boscobel,_Shropshire" title="Boscobel, Shropshire">Boscobel</a> is the smallest parish in Shropshire by geographical area and by population, with just 12 residents according to the 2001 census.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The smaller parishes (with populations of less than 200) usually have a joint <a href="/wiki/Parish_councils_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Parish councils in England">parish council</a> with one or more neighbouring parishes, or in some instances, have a <a href="/wiki/Parish_meeting" title="Parish meeting">parish meeting</a> (such as in <a href="/wiki/Sibdon_Carwood" title="Sibdon Carwood">Sibdon Carwood</a>). The urban area of Telford is divided into many parishes, each covering a particular suburb, some of which are historic villages or towns (such as <a href="/wiki/Madeley,_Shropshire" title="Madeley, Shropshire">Madeley</a>). The parish remains an important sub-division and tier of local government in both unitary authority areas of Shropshire. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Local_government_1974–2009"><span id="Local_government_1974.E2.80.932009"></span>Local government 1974–2009</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Local government 1974–2009"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shropshire_Ceremonial_Numbered.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Shropshire_Ceremonial_Numbered.png/130px-Shropshire_Ceremonial_Numbered.png" decoding="async" width="130" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Shropshire_Ceremonial_Numbered.png/195px-Shropshire_Ceremonial_Numbered.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Shropshire_Ceremonial_Numbered.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="224" /></a><figcaption>The ceremonial county prior to the 2009 local government restructuring, with just Telford & Wrekin as a unitary authority (shown yellow)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1974 the <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_county" title="Non-metropolitan county">non-metropolitan county</a> of Salop was constituted, covering the entire county. After a local campaign, the council voted 48-5 to revert to Shropshire from 1 April 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There was a two-tier system of local government, constituting a <a href="/wiki/County_council" title="County council">county council</a> (as the upper tier) and six <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_district" title="Non-metropolitan district">district</a> councils – <a href="/wiki/Bridgnorth_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bridgnorth (district)">Bridgnorth</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Shropshire" title="North Shropshire">North Shropshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oswestry_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Oswestry (borough)">Oswestry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_and_Atcham" title="Shrewsbury and Atcham">Shrewsbury and Atcham</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Shropshire" title="South Shropshire">South Shropshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Telford_and_Wrekin" title="Telford and Wrekin">The Wrekin</a>. In 1998 The Wrekin became a <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authority" title="Unitary authority">unitary authority</a>, administratively separate from the county council, and became Telford and Wrekin. The two-tier structure remained in the remainder of the county and was the least populated two-tier area in England. </p><p>Oswestry and Shrewsbury & Atcham were each granted borough status in 1974. Telford and Wrekin became a borough in 2002. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2009_restructuring">2009 restructuring</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: 2009 restructuring"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2009_structural_changes_to_local_government_in_England" title="2009 structural changes to local government in England">2009 structural changes to local government in England</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shrewsbury_Column.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Shrewsbury_Column.jpg/220px-Shrewsbury_Column.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Shrewsbury_Column.jpg/330px-Shrewsbury_Column.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Shrewsbury_Column.jpg/440px-Shrewsbury_Column.jpg 2x" data-file-width="457" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Shropshire's <a href="/wiki/Shirehall,_Shrewsbury" title="Shirehall, Shrewsbury">Shirehall</a> is located opposite <a href="/wiki/Lord_Hill%27s_Column" title="Lord Hill's Column">Lord Hill's Column</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2006 a local government white paper supported proposals for new <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authority" title="Unitary authority">unitary authorities</a> to be set up in England in certain areas. Existing <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_county" title="Non-metropolitan county">non-metropolitan counties</a> with small populations, such as <a href="/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a>, Northumberland and Shropshire, were favoured by the government to be covered by unitary authorities in one form or another (the county either becoming a single unitary authority, or be broken into a number of unitary authorities). For the counties in the 2009 reorganisation, existing unitary authority areas within the counties' <a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">ceremonial boundaries</a> (such as Telford and Wrekin) were not to be affected and no boundary changes were planned. </p><p>Shropshire County Council, supported by South Shropshire District Council and Oswestry Borough Council, proposed to the government that the non-metropolitan county of Shropshire become a single unitary authority. This was opposed by the other three districts in the county, with Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council taking their objection to the High Court in a judicial review. </p><p>The proposal to create a Shropshire unitary authority, covering the area of the existing non-metropolitan county, was supported by the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Communities_and_Local_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Communities and Local Government">DCLG</a> and 1 April 2009 was set as the date for the re-organisation to take place. The first elections to Shropshire Council took place on 4 June 2009, with the former Shropshire County Council being the continuing authority and its councillors became the first members of the new Shropshire Council on 1 April. </p><p>Part of the proposals include <a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">parishing</a> and establishing a <a href="/wiki/Town_council" title="Town council">town council</a> for Shrewsbury. The parish was created on 13 May 2008 and is the second most populous <a href="/wiki/Civil_parishes_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil parishes in England">civil parish</a> in England (only <a href="/wiki/Weston-super-Mare" title="Weston-super-Mare">Weston-super-Mare</a> has a greater population) with a population of over 70,000. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_control_of_councils">Political control of councils</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Political control of councils"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shropshire Council has been under Conservative control since the first election held in 2009; <a href="/wiki/Telford_and_Wrekin_Council" title="Telford and Wrekin Council">Telford and Wrekin Council</a> has been under <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> control since 2011. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy_2">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Square,_Shrewsbury.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/The_Square%2C_Shrewsbury.JPG/220px-The_Square%2C_Shrewsbury.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/The_Square%2C_Shrewsbury.JPG/330px-The_Square%2C_Shrewsbury.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/The_Square%2C_Shrewsbury.JPG/440px-The_Square%2C_Shrewsbury.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>Shrewsbury's town centre contains the Darwin, Pride Hill and Riverside shopping centres, as well as more traditional historic retail areas.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:TelfordPlaza.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/TelfordPlaza.JPG/220px-TelfordPlaza.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/TelfordPlaza.JPG/330px-TelfordPlaza.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/TelfordPlaza.JPG/440px-TelfordPlaza.JPG 2x" data-file-width="771" data-file-height="537" /></a><figcaption>Telford Plaza in <a href="/wiki/Telford#Landmarks" title="Telford">Telford Town Centre</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Traditionally, agriculture has dominated the economy of Shropshire.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The area later became more service-oriented. The county town of <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a>, the historic castle-dominated <a href="/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow">Ludlow</a>, the <a href="/wiki/International_Olympic_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="International Olympic Movement">International Olympic Movement</a>'s reputed birthplace <a href="/wiki/Much_Wenlock" title="Much Wenlock">Much Wenlock</a> and the industrial birthplace of <a href="/wiki/Ironbridge_Gorge" title="Ironbridge Gorge">Ironbridge Gorge</a> are the foremost <a href="/wiki/Tourism" title="Tourism">tourist</a> areas in Shropshire,<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along with the restored canal-network which provides narrowboat holidays on the <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Union_Canal" title="Shropshire Union Canal">Shropshire Union Canal</a> and other canals in the region. The natural beauty of the county draws people to all areas. In 2024, Shropshire was listed on the ABTA's list of global destinations to watch for its 'beautiful landscapes, towns and villages'.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Industry is mostly found in <a href="/wiki/Telford" title="Telford">Telford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oswestry" title="Oswestry">Oswestry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Whitchurch,_Shropshire" title="Whitchurch, Shropshire">Whitchurch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Market_Drayton" title="Market Drayton">Market Drayton</a> and Shrewsbury, though small industrial estates have developed in most of the market towns as well as on former airfields in rural areas. In towns such as Whitchurch, much of the high street is predominantly composed of small independent business which specialise in handmade items or antiques. Shrewsbury is becoming<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (December 2019)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> a centre for distribution and warehousing, as it is located on a nodal point of the regional road-network.<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-publications.parliament.uk_142-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-publications.parliament.uk-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Telford, a new <a href="/wiki/Telford_International_Railfreight_Park" title="Telford International Railfreight Park">rail freight facility</a> was opened in 2009 by Telford and Wrekin Council at <a href="/wiki/Donnington,_Telford" title="Donnington, Telford">Donnington</a><sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the future goal of extending the line<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too vague attribution or weasel words. (December 2019)">which?</span></a></i>]</sup> to <a href="/wiki/Stafford" title="Stafford">Stafford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-publications.parliament.uk_142-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-publications.parliament.uk-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Telford and Shrewsbury are the county's two main retail centres, with contrasting styles of shopping – Shrewsbury's largely historic streets and Telford's large modern mall, <a href="/wiki/Telford_Shopping_Centre" title="Telford Shopping Centre">Telford Shopping Centre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shrewsbury also has two medium-sized shopping centres, the indoor "Pride Hill" and <a href="/wiki/Darwin_Shopping_Centre" title="Darwin Shopping Centre">"Darwin"</a> centres (both located on Pride Hill),<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and (prior to its demolition in 2024) a smaller, partially covered, "Riverside Mall". Shrewsbury's location as the nearest substantial town for those in a large area of <a href="/wiki/Powys" title="Powys">mid-Wales</a> helps it draw in considerable numbers of shoppers, notably on Saturdays. </p><p>Well-known companies in Shropshire include <a href="/wiki/M%C3%BCller_(company)" title="Müller (company)">Müller Dairy (UK) Ltd</a> in <a href="/wiki/Market_Drayton" title="Market Drayton">Market Drayton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> operates two bases at <a href="/wiki/DCAE_Cosford" class="mw-redirect" title="DCAE Cosford">RAF Cosford</a> and <a href="/wiki/RAF_Shawbury" title="RAF Shawbury">RAF Shawbury</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the charity <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Dispensary_for_Sick_Animals" title="People's Dispensary for Sick Animals">PDSA</a> has its head office in <a href="/wiki/St_George%27s_and_Priorslee" title="St George's and Priorslee">Priorslee</a>, Telford.<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Statistics">Statistics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Statistics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Below is the chart of regional gross value added for the non-metropolitan county (that is, excluding Telford & Wrekin) of Shropshire at current basic prices,<sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with figures in millions of British <a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">pounds sterling</a>. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year</th> <th>Regional gross value added<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated2_150-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>Agriculture<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated4_151-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated4-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>Industry<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated5_152-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated5-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>Services<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated3_153-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated3-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td>1995</td> <td><b>2,388</b></td> <td>238</td> <td>618</td> <td>1,533 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2000</td> <td><b>2,977</b></td> <td>177</td> <td>739</td> <td>2,061 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003</td> <td><b>3,577</b></td> <td>197</td> <td>843</td> <td>2,538 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>With the statistics for the borough of <a href="/wiki/Telford_and_Wrekin" title="Telford and Wrekin">Telford and Wrekin</a> included, the following represents the ceremonial county: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year</th> <th>Regional gross value added<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated2_150-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>Agriculture<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated4_151-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated4-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>Industry<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated5_152-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated5-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>Services<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated3_153-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated3-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td>1995</td> <td><b>4,151</b></td> <td>266</td> <td>1,483</td> <td>2,403 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2000</td> <td><b>5,049</b></td> <td>197</td> <td>1,512</td> <td>3,340 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003</td> <td><b>5,947</b></td> <td>218</td> <td>1,693</td> <td>4,038 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Shropshire" title="List of schools in Shropshire">List of schools in Shropshire</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:School_Boathouse_Shrewsbury_(20960693446).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/School_Boathouse_Shrewsbury_%2820960693446%29.jpg/220px-School_Boathouse_Shrewsbury_%2820960693446%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/School_Boathouse_Shrewsbury_%2820960693446%29.jpg/330px-School_Boathouse_Shrewsbury_%2820960693446%29.jpg 1.5x, 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(both of which are ranked within the top thirty schools in the country). In Telford itself is the <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Telford_School" title="Thomas Telford School">Thomas Telford School</a>, ranked as one of the best comprehensive schools in England.<sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some Shropshire children attend schools in <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Llanfyllin_High_School" title="Llanfyllin High School">Llanfyllin High School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The county has many independent schools, such as <a href="/wiki/Oswestry_School" title="Oswestry School">Oswestry School</a> (founded in 1407), <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_School" title="Shrewsbury School">Shrewsbury School</a>, (founded in 1552), and <a href="/wiki/Ellesmere_College" title="Ellesmere College">Ellesmere College</a> (founded in 1884). </p><p>There are three sixth-form colleges located in Shropshire: the <a href="/wiki/New_College,_Telford" title="New College, Telford">New College, Telford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Sixth_Form_College" title="Shrewsbury Sixth Form College">Shrewsbury Sixth Form College</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_College" title="Ludlow College">Ludlow College</a>. Haberdashers’ Adams and Newport Girls' High Schools both provide sixth-form education as well as secondary education. </p><p>There are also two institutions of higher education in Shropshire, the Telford campus of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wolverhampton" title="University of Wolverhampton">University of Wolverhampton</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Edgmond" title="Edgmond">Edgmond</a>, near Newport, <a href="/wiki/Harper_Adams_University" title="Harper Adams University">Harper Adams University</a>, which formerly offered mostly agriculture-based degrees but is expanding its range of provision. A third higher education institution was created in Shrewsbury in 2015, which is a campus of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chester" title="University of Chester">University of Chester</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Ironbridge, the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Birmingham" title="University of Birmingham">University of Birmingham</a> operates the <a href="/wiki/Ironbridge_Institute" title="Ironbridge Institute">Ironbridge Institute</a> in partnership with the <a href="/wiki/Ironbridge_Gorge_Museum_Trust" title="Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust">Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust</a>, which offers postgraduate and professional development courses in heritage. </p><p>Shropshire has the highest educational attainment in the <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_region" class="mw-redirect" title="West Midlands region">West Midlands region</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-157" 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School">Burton Borough School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlton_School" title="Charlton School">Charlton School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_Stretton_School" title="Church Stretton School">Church Stretton School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Corbet_School" title="The Corbet School">The Corbet School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ercall_Wood_Academy" title="Ercall Wood Academy">Ercall Wood Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grove_School,_Market_Drayton" title="Grove School, Market Drayton">Grove School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haberdashers%27_Abraham_Darby" title="Haberdashers' Abraham Darby">Haberdashers' Abraham Darby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadley_Learning_Community" title="Hadley Learning Community">Hadley Learning Community</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Academy,_Telford" title="Holy Trinity Academy, Telford">Holy Trinity Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idsall_School" title="Idsall School">Idsall School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lacon_Childe_School" title="Lacon Childe School">Lacon Childe School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakelands_Academy" title="Lakelands Academy">Lakelands Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Church_of_England_School" title="Ludlow Church of England School">Ludlow Church of England School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madeley_Academy" title="Madeley Academy">Madeley Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Marches_School" title="The Marches School">The Marches School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Webb_School_and_Science_College" title="Mary Webb School and Science College">Mary Webb School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meole_Brace_School" title="Meole Brace School">Meole Brace School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oldbury_Wells_School" title="Oldbury Wells School">Oldbury Wells School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Priory_School,_Shrewsbury" title="The Priory School, Shrewsbury">The Priory School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Martin%27s_School,_Shropshire" title="St Martin's School, Shropshire">St Martin's School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Talbot%27s_School" title="Sir John Talbot's School">Sir John Talbot's School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Academy" title="Shrewsbury Academy">Shrewsbury Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telford_Park_School" title="Telford Park School">Telford Park School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telford_Priory_School" title="Telford Priory School">Telford Priory School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Telford_Langley_School" title="The Telford Langley School">The Telford Langley School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Adams_School" title="Thomas Adams School">Thomas Adams School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Telford_School" title="Thomas Telford School">Thomas Telford School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Brookes_School" title="William Brookes School">William Brookes School</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Grammar</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Haberdashers%27_Adams" title="Haberdashers' Adams">Haberdashers' Adams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newport_Girls%27_High_School" title="Newport Girls' High School">Newport Girls' High School</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Independent (preparatory)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Castle_House_School" title="Castle House School">Castle House School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moor_Park_School" title="Moor Park School">Moor Park School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Packwood_Haugh_School" title="Packwood Haugh School">Packwood Haugh School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prestfelde_School" title="Prestfelde School">Prestfelde School</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Independent (senior)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adcote_School" title="Adcote School">Adcote School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concord_College,_Acton_Burnell" title="Concord College, Acton Burnell">Concord College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellesmere_College" title="Ellesmere College">Ellesmere College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moreton_Hall_School" title="Moreton Hall School">Moreton Hall School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oswestry_School" title="Oswestry School">Oswestry School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_High_School,_Shropshire" title="Shrewsbury High School, Shropshire">Shrewsbury High School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_School" title="Shrewsbury School">Shrewsbury School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wrekin_College" title="Wrekin College">Wrekin College</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sixth form colleges</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ludlow_College" title="Ludlow College">Ludlow College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Sixth_Form_College" title="Shrewsbury Sixth Form College">Shrewsbury Sixth Form College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telford_College" title="Telford College">Telford College</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Further education colleges</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_College" title="Shrewsbury College">Shrewsbury College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telford_College" title="Telford College">Telford College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Shropshire_College" title="North Shropshire College">North Shropshire College</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Universities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harper_Adams_University" title="Harper Adams University">Harper Adams University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Wolverhampton" title="University of Wolverhampton">University of Wolverhampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_Centre_Shrewsbury" title="University Centre Shrewsbury">University Centre Shrewsbury</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wakeman_School" title="Wakeman School">Wakeman School</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Montgomery_Canal_at_Maesbury_Marsh.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Montgomery_Canal_at_Maesbury_Marsh.jpg/220px-Montgomery_Canal_at_Maesbury_Marsh.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Montgomery_Canal_at_Maesbury_Marsh.jpg/330px-Montgomery_Canal_at_Maesbury_Marsh.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Montgomery_Canal_at_Maesbury_Marsh.jpg/440px-Montgomery_Canal_at_Maesbury_Marsh.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Montgomery_Canal" title="Montgomery Canal">Montgomery Canal</a> at <a href="/wiki/Maesbury_Marsh" class="mw-redirect" title="Maesbury Marsh">Maesbury Marsh</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:82109_-_Shrewsbury_(8959190070).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/82109_-_Shrewsbury_%288959190070%29.jpg/220px-82109_-_Shrewsbury_%288959190070%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/82109_-_Shrewsbury_%288959190070%29.jpg/330px-82109_-_Shrewsbury_%288959190070%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/82109_-_Shrewsbury_%288959190070%29.jpg/440px-82109_-_Shrewsbury_%288959190070%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4640" data-file-height="3114" /></a><figcaption>The direct <a href="/wiki/InterCity_(British_Rail)" title="InterCity (British Rail)">InterCity</a> from <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_railway_station" title="Shrewsbury railway station">Shrewsbury</a> to <a href="/wiki/Euston_railway_station" title="Euston railway station">London Euston</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Driving_Van_Trailer" title="Driving Van Trailer">DVT</a> and mailbags delivering the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Mail" title="Royal Mail">Royal Mail</a> at a time when <a href="/wiki/British_Rail" title="British Rail">British Rail</a> ran the network</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Shropshire" title="Rail transport in Shropshire">Rail transport in Shropshire</a></div> <p>Shropshire is connected to the rest of the United Kingdom via a number of road and rail links. Historically, rivers and later canals in the county were used for transport also, although their use in transport is now significantly reduced. The county's main transport hub is Shrewsbury, through which many significant roads and railways pass and join. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Canals_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Canals of the United Kingdom">Canals in Britain</a> were originally constructed for the transport of goods, but are now mainly used for leisure. In northern Shropshire three canals with a total navigable length of 41 miles (66 km) are managed by the <a href="/wiki/Canal_%26_River_Trust" title="Canal & River Trust">Canal & River Trust</a>: the <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Union_Canal" title="Shropshire Union Canal">Shropshire Union Canal</a> (from north of <a href="/wiki/Adderley" title="Adderley">Adderley</a> to near <a href="/wiki/Knighton,_Stafford,_Staffordshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Knighton, Stafford, Staffordshire">Knighton</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Llangollen_Canal" title="Llangollen Canal">Llangollen Canal</a> (from <a href="/wiki/Chirk_Aqueduct" title="Chirk Aqueduct">Chirk Aqueduct</a> to <a href="/wiki/Grindley_Brook" title="Grindley Brook">Grindley Brook</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/Montgomery_Canal" title="Montgomery Canal">Montgomery Canal</a> (from its beginning at <a href="/wiki/Frankton_Junction" title="Frankton Junction">Frankton Junction</a> to <a href="/wiki/Llanymynech" title="Llanymynech">Llanymynech</a>). In addition, the <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Canal" title="Shrewsbury Canal">Shrewsbury and Newport Canal</a> potentially could be restored in the future.<sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:M54,_Westbound_to_Telford._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1247312.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/M54%2C_Westbound_to_Telford._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1247312.jpg/220px-M54%2C_Westbound_to_Telford._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1247312.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/M54%2C_Westbound_to_Telford._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1247312.jpg/330px-M54%2C_Westbound_to_Telford._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1247312.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/M54%2C_Westbound_to_Telford._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1247312.jpg/440px-M54%2C_Westbound_to_Telford._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1247312.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/M54_Motorway" class="mw-redirect" title="M54 Motorway">M54 Motorway</a> runs through the east of the county, as far as <a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Shropshire" title="Wellington, Shropshire">Wellington</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Major roads in the county include the <a href="/wiki/M54_motorway" title="M54 motorway">M54 motorway</a>, which connects Shropshire to the rest of the motorway network, and more specifically to the <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_county" class="mw-redirect" title="West Midlands county">West Midlands county</a>. The <a href="/wiki/A5_road_(Great_Britain)" title="A5 road (Great Britain)">A5</a> also runs through the county, in an east–west direction. The road formerly ran through Shrewsbury, although a large dual-carriageway bypass has since been built. Other major trunk roads in the county include the north–south <a href="/wiki/A49_road" title="A49 road">A49</a>, the <a href="/wiki/A53_road" title="A53 road">A53</a> and the <a href="/wiki/A41_road" title="A41 road">A41</a>. </p><p>There are a number of major <a href="/wiki/Railways_of_Shropshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Railways of Shropshire">railway</a> lines running through the county, including the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Marches_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Welsh Marches Line">Welsh Marches Line</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Heart_of_Wales_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Heart of Wales Line">Heart of Wales Line</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Cambrian_Line" title="Cambrian Line">Cambrian Line</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_to_Chester_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Shrewsbury to Chester Line">Shrewsbury to Chester Line</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Wolverhampton_to_Shrewsbury_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line">Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Heritage_railway" title="Heritage railway">heritage railways</a> including the well established <a href="/wiki/Severn_Valley_Railway" title="Severn Valley Railway">Severn Valley Railway</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Cambrian_Heritage_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambrian Heritage Railway">Cambrian Heritage Railway</a> exists in <a href="/wiki/Oswestry" title="Oswestry">Oswestry</a>. The three train operating companies working in the county are <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_Trains" title="West Midlands Trains">West Midlands Trains</a>, <a href="/wiki/Transport_for_Wales_Rail" title="Transport for Wales Rail">Transport for Wales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Avanti_West_Coast" title="Avanti West Coast">Avanti West Coast</a>. A new company, <a href="/wiki/Wrexham_%26_Shropshire" title="Wrexham & Shropshire">Wrexham & Shropshire</a>, commenced services from Shropshire to <a href="/wiki/Marylebone_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Marylebone railway station">London Marylebone</a>, in spring 2008 but the service was discontinued on 28 January 2011 leaving Shrewsbury without a direct link to the capital.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Virgin Trains (the operator at the time) recommenced services from Shrewsbury to <a href="/wiki/Euston_railway_station" title="Euston railway station">London Euston</a> on 11 December 2014, having withdrawn them in the late 1990s,<sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> however, their successor Avanti West Coast is set to withdraw service once again in June 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two major water supply <a href="/wiki/Pipeline_transport" class="mw-redirect" title="Pipeline transport">aqueducts</a> run across Shropshire; the <a href="/wiki/Elan_aqueduct" title="Elan aqueduct">Elan aqueduct</a> running through South Shropshire carrying water from <a href="/wiki/Elan_Valley" title="Elan Valley">Elan Valley</a> to <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a> and the Vyrnwy Aqueduct running through North Shropshire delivering water from <a href="/wiki/Lake_Vyrnwy" title="Lake Vyrnwy">Lake Vyrnwy</a> to <a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The county is served by <a href="/wiki/BBC_West_Midlands" title="BBC West Midlands">BBC West Midlands</a> and <a href="/wiki/ITV_Central" title="ITV Central">ITV Central</a> television, and <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Shropshire" title="BBC Radio Shropshire">BBC Radio Shropshire</a>. County-wide commercial radio stations are <a href="/wiki/Hits_Radio_Black_Country_%26_Shropshire" title="Hits Radio Black Country & Shropshire">Hits Radio Black Country & Shropshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greatest_Hits_Radio_Black_Country_%26_Shropshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Greatest Hits Radio Black Country & Shropshire">Greatest Hits Radio Black Country & Shropshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heart_West_Midlands" title="Heart West Midlands">Heart West Midlands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Capital_North_West_and_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital North West and Wales">Capital North West and Wales</a>, <a href="/wiki/Smooth_West_Midlands" title="Smooth West Midlands">Smooth West Midlands</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_Radio_(Ludlow)" title="Sunshine Radio (Ludlow)">Sunshine Radio</a> (serving <a href="/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow">Ludlow</a> and southern parts of Shropshire). </p><p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Star" title="Shropshire Star">Shropshire Star</a></i> newspaper covers the county.<sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Places_of_interest">Places of interest</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Places of interest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Shropshire" title="Listed buildings in Shropshire">Listed buildings in Shropshire</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .col-break-2{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-3{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-4{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-5{width:20%}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .col-begin,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important}.mw-parser-output .col-break{padding-left:0!important}}</style><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break col-break-3"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adcote" class="mw-redirect" title="Adcote">Adcote</a> nr. <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attingham_Park" title="Attingham Park">Attingham Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Atcham" title="Atcham">Atcham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benthall_Hall" title="Benthall Hall">Benthall Hall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Broseley" title="Broseley">Broseley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blists_Hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Blists Hill">Blists Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Madeley_(Shropshire)" class="mw-redirect" title="Madeley (Shropshire)">Madeley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boscobel_House" title="Boscobel House">Boscobel House</a>, nr. <a href="/wiki/Wolverhampton" title="Wolverhampton">Wolverhampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgnorth_Cliff_Railway" title="Bridgnorth Cliff Railway">Bridgnorth Cliff Railway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bridgnorth" title="Bridgnorth">Bridgnorth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgnorth_Castle" title="Bridgnorth Castle">Bridgnorth Castle</a>, Bridgnorth</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brown_Clee_Hill" title="Brown Clee Hill">Brown Clee Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Shropshire" title="South Shropshire">South Shropshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buildwas_Abbey" title="Buildwas Abbey">Buildwas Abbey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buildwas" title="Buildwas">Buildwas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burford,_Shropshire" title="Burford, Shropshire">Burford House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caer_Caradoc" title="Caer Caradoc">Caer Caradoc</a>, nr. Church Stretton</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambrian_Heritage_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambrian Heritage Railway">Cambrian Heritage Railway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oswestry" title="Oswestry">Oswestry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Llynclys" title="Llynclys">Llynclys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chetwynd_Park" title="Chetwynd Park">Chetwynd Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newport,_Shropshire" title="Newport, Shropshire">Newport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Mynd" title="Long Mynd">Cardingmill Valley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Church_Stretton" title="Church Stretton">Church Stretton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clun_Castle" title="Clun Castle">Clun Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clun" title="Clun">Clun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flounder%27s_Folly" class="mw-redirect" title="Flounder's Folly">Flounder's Folly</a>, nr. <a href="/wiki/Craven_Arms" title="Craven Arms">Craven Arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fordhall_Farm" title="Fordhall Farm">Fordhall castle and farm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haughmond_Hill" title="Haughmond Hill">Haughmond Hill</a>, nr. Shrewsbury</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haughmond_Abbey" title="Haughmond Abbey">Haughmond Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawkstone_Park" title="Hawkstone Park">Hawkstone Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Shropshire" title="North Shropshire">North Shropshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hopton_Castle" title="Hopton Castle">Hopton Castle</a>, nr. <a href="/wiki/Craven_Arms" title="Craven Arms">Craven Arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ironbridge_Gorge" title="Ironbridge Gorge">Ironbridge Gorge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Kynaston" title="Humphrey Kynaston">Kynaston's Cave</a>, nr. <a href="/wiki/Nesscliffe" title="Nesscliffe">Nesscliffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langley_Chapel" title="Langley Chapel">Langley Chapel</a>, nr. Shrewsbury</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lilleshall_Abbey" title="Lilleshall Abbey">Lilleshall Abbey</a>, nr Newport</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Mynd" title="Long Mynd">The Long Mynd</a>, Church Stretton</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Castle" title="Ludlow Castle">Ludlow Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow">Ludlow</a></li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-3"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mitchell%27s_Fold" title="Mitchell's Fold">Mitchell's Fold</a>, nr. <a href="/wiki/Chirbury" title="Chirbury">Chirbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moreton_Corbet_Castle" title="Moreton Corbet Castle">Moreton Corbet Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moreton_Corbet" title="Moreton Corbet">Moreton Corbet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newport_Guildhall" title="Newport Guildhall">Newport Guildhall</a>, Newport</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Offa%27s_Dyke_Path" title="Offa's Dyke Path">Offa's Dyke Path</a>, <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Marches" title="Welsh Marches">Welsh Marches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puleston_Cross" title="Puleston Cross">Puleston Cross</a>, Newport</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Severn_Valley_Railway" title="Severn Valley Railway">Severn Valley Railway</a>, Bridgnorth</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Abbey" title="Shrewsbury Abbey">Shrewsbury Abbey</a>, Shrewsbury</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Castle" title="Shrewsbury Castle">Shrewsbury Castle</a>, Shrewsbury</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Hills_Area_of_Outstanding_Natural_Beauty" class="mw-redirect" title="Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty">Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty</a> (<a href="/wiki/AONB" class="mw-redirect" title="AONB">AONB</a>), <a href="/wiki/South_Shropshire" title="South Shropshire">South Shropshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Union_Canal" title="Shropshire Union Canal">Shropshire Union Canal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snailbeach" title="Snailbeach">Snailbeach</a> Lead Mines nr. Shrewsbury</li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Telford_Heritage_Trail" title="South Telford Heritage Trail">South Telford Heritage Trail</a>, <a href="/wiki/Telford" title="Telford">Telford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soulton_Hall" title="Soulton Hall">Soulton Hall</a> nr. <a href="/wiki/Wem" title="Wem">Wem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Laurence_Church,_Ludlow" class="mw-redirect" title="St Laurence Church, Ludlow">St Laurence Church, Ludlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Stiperstones" class="mw-redirect" title="The Stiperstones">The Stiperstones</a>, nr <a href="/wiki/Pontesbury" title="Pontesbury">Pontesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stokesay_Castle" title="Stokesay Castle">Stokesay Castle</a>, nr Craven Arms</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunnycroft" title="Sunnycroft">Sunnycroft</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Shropshire" title="Wellington, Shropshire">Wellington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telford_Steam_Railway" title="Telford Steam Railway">Telford Steam Railway</a>, Telford</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titterstone_Clee_Hill" title="Titterstone Clee Hill">Titterstone Clee Hill</a>, nr. Ludlow</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wenlock_Edge" title="Wenlock Edge">Wenlock Edge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Much_Wenlock" title="Much Wenlock">Much Wenlock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Much_Wenlock_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Much Wenlock Priory">Wenlock Priory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Ladies_Priory" title="White Ladies Priory">White Ladies Priory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whittington_Castle" title="Whittington Castle">Whittington Castle</a>, nr. <a href="/wiki/Oswestry" title="Oswestry">Oswestry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Wrekin" title="The Wrekin">The Wrekin</a> (and <a href="/wiki/Ercall_Hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Ercall Hill">Ercall</a>) nr. <a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Shropshire" title="Wellington, Shropshire">Wellington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viroconium_Cornoviorum" title="Viroconium Cornoviorum">Wroxeter Roman City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wroxeter" title="Wroxeter">Wroxeter</a>, nr. Atcham</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-3"> <div style="float:right;"> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shrewsbury_Castle_Keep.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Shrewsbury_Castle_Keep.jpg/220px-Shrewsbury_Castle_Keep.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Shrewsbury_Castle_Keep.jpg/330px-Shrewsbury_Castle_Keep.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Shrewsbury_Castle_Keep.jpg/440px-Shrewsbury_Castle_Keep.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Shrewsbury Castle</figcaption></figure><br /> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Attingham_Park_in_Atcham,_Shropshire_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1769502.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Attingham_Park_in_Atcham%2C_Shropshire_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1769502.jpg/220px-Attingham_Park_in_Atcham%2C_Shropshire_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1769502.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Attingham_Park_in_Atcham%2C_Shropshire_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1769502.jpg/330px-Attingham_Park_in_Atcham%2C_Shropshire_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1769502.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Attingham_Park_in_Atcham%2C_Shropshire_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1769502.jpg/440px-Attingham_Park_in_Atcham%2C_Shropshire_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1769502.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1360" /></a><figcaption>Attingham Park Mansion</figcaption></figure><br /> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ironbridge002.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Ironbridge002.JPG/220px-Ironbridge002.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Ironbridge002.JPG/330px-Ironbridge002.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Ironbridge002.JPG/440px-Ironbridge002.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Ironbridge</figcaption></figure><br /> </div> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid 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Corner</a><sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alison_Williamson" title="Alison Williamson">Alison Williamson</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Church_Stretton" title="Church Stretton">Church Stretton</a>, archery Olympic bronze medalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amy_Bagshaw" title="Amy Bagshaw">Amy Bagshaw</a>, international <a href="/wiki/Gymnast" class="mw-redirect" title="Gymnast">gymnast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Pym" title="Barbara Pym">Barbara Pym</a>, novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Wright_(footballer_born_1924)" class="mw-redirect" title="Billy Wright (footballer born 1924)">Billy Wright</a>, born in Ironbridge, <a href="/wiki/Wolverhampton_Wanderers_F.C." title="Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.">Wolverhampton Wanderers</a> footballer and England captain</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carol_Decker" title="Carol Decker">Carol Decker</a>, lead singer of the 1980s pop group <a href="/wiki/T%27Pau_(band)" title="T'Pau (band)">T'Pau</a>, went to school in Shropshire</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Babbage" title="Charles Babbage">Charles Babbage</a>, early computing pioneer, lived at <a href="/wiki/Dudmaston_Hall" title="Dudmaston Hall">Dudmaston Hall</a> in 1814</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a>, eminent <a href="/wiki/Naturalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Naturalist">naturalist</a> developed the <a href="/wiki/Theory_of_evolution_by_natural_selection" class="mw-redirect" title="Theory of evolution by natural selection">theory of evolution by natural selection</a>, born in Shrewsbury</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Hawkins" title="Chris Hawkins">Chris Hawkins</a>, radio presenter and DJ, born in <a href="/wiki/Loppington" title="Loppington">Loppington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Craig_Phillips" title="Craig Phillips">Craig Phillips</a>, of Newport, winner of <a href="/wiki/Big_Brother_2000_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Brother 2000 (UK)"><i>Big Brother</i> 2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Edwards_(footballer,_born_1986)" title="David Edwards (footballer, born 1986)">David Edwards</a>, footballer (born in Pontesbury), Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C & Wales</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edith_Pargeter" title="Edith Pargeter">Edith Pargeter</a> (1913–1995), author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Plowden" title="Edmund Plowden">Edmund Plowden</a> (1518–1585), legal scholar and theorist</li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Plowden_(colonial_governor)" title="Edmund Plowden (colonial governor)">Edmund Plowden</a> (1590–1659), proprietor, Earl Palatine and Governor of <a href="/wiki/New_Albion" title="New Albion">New Albion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edric_the_Wild" class="mw-redirect" title="Edric the Wild">Edric the Wild</a>, Anglo-Saxon magnate</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Waring" title="Edward Waring">Edward Waring</a> (1736–1798), mathematician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eglantyne_Jebb" title="Eglantyne Jebb">Eglantyne Jebb</a> of Ellesmere, social reformer and founder of the <a href="/wiki/Save_the_Children_Fund" class="mw-redirect" title="Save the Children Fund">Save the Children Fund</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernie_Clements" title="Ernie Clements">Ernie Clements</a>, cyclist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Jordan_(singer)" title="Fred Jordan (singer)">Fred Jordan</a>, farm worker from Ludlow and one of the great <a href="/wiki/Traditional" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditional">traditional</a> <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">English</a> singers</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Jeffreys,_1st_Baron_Jeffreys" title="George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys">George Jeffreys</a>, of Wem, infamous judge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgina_Frederica_Jackson" title="Georgina Frederica Jackson">Georgina Frederica Jackson</a>, compiler of <i>Shropshire Word-Book</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Richards_(jockey)" title="Gordon Richards (jockey)">Sir Gordon Richards</a> (1902–1986), 26 times flat racing Champion Jockey, born at Donnington Wood</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Davies" title="Greg Davies">Greg Davies</a>, comedian and actor grew up in Wem</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Kynaston" title="Humphrey Kynaston">Humphrey Kynaston</a> (died 1534), <a href="/wiki/Highwayman" title="Highwayman">highwayman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isobel_Cooper" title="Isobel Cooper">Isobel Cooper</a> (Izzy), opera singer from Much Wenlock</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Jones_(author)" title="Ivan Jones (author)">Ivan Jones</a>, writer of <i>The Ghost Hunter</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesse_Armstrong" title="Jesse Armstrong">Jesse Armstrong</a>, screenwriter and producer, creator of Emmy-winning TV show '<a href="/wiki/Succession_(TV_series)" title="Succession (TV series)">Succession</a>', and co-creator of comedy TV shows '<a href="/wiki/Peep_Show_(British_TV_series)" title="Peep Show (British TV series)">Peep Show</a>' and '<a href="/wiki/Fresh_Meat_(TV_series)" title="Fresh Meat (TV series)">Fresh Meat</a>'</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Benbow" title="John Benbow">John Benbow</a>, Admiral of the White, born in Shrewsbury</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Hart" title="Joe Hart">Joe Hart</a>, born in Shrewsbury, <a href="/wiki/Celtic_F.C." title="Celtic F.C.">Celtic</a> and England goalkeeper</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Mytton" title="John Mytton">John Mytton</a>, 'Mad Jack' Mytton, Regency rake, MP, gambler and horseman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wilkinson_(industrialist)" title="John Wilkinson (industrialist)">John Wilkinson</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Broseley" title="Broseley">Broseley</a>, industrialist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Corbett" title="Jonathan Corbett">Jonathan Corbett</a>, TV presenter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._K._Downing" title="K. K. Downing">K. K. Downing</a>, guitarist with <a href="/wiki/Judas_Priest" title="Judas Priest">Judas Priest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lara_Jones" title="Lara Jones">Lara Jones</a>, writer of the Poppy Cat books</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Len_Murray" title="Len Murray">Len Murray</a>, former head of the <a href="/wiki/Trades_Union_Congress" title="Trades Union Congress">T.U.C.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton" title="John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton">Lord Acton</a>, 19th century historian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mal_Lewis_Jones" title="Mal Lewis Jones">Mal Lewis Jones</a>, writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Beard_(classicist)" title="Mary Beard (classicist)">Mary Beard</a>, classicist and public personality at <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambridge University">Cambridge University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Webb" title="Mary Webb">Mary Webb</a> (1881–1927), author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Jones_(footballer,_born_1980)" title="Matthew Jones (footballer, born 1980)">Matthew Jones</a>, footballer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Webb" title="Matthew Webb">Matthew Webb</a>, first man to swim the <a href="/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">English Channel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirabel_Osler" title="Mirabel Osler">Mirabel Osler</a>, author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Postlethwaite" title="Pete Postlethwaite">Pete Postlethwaite</a>, actor, lived near <a href="/wiki/Church_Stretton" title="Church Stretton">Church Stretton</a> until his death in 2011</li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Philip_Sidney" title="Philip Sidney">Philip Sidney</a>, prominent Elizabethan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Lee_I" title="Richard Lee I">Richard Lee I</a>, first member of the <a href="/wiki/Lee_family" title="Lee family">Lee family</a> of America. Ancestor of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lee_(Virginia_colonist)" title="Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist)">Thomas Lee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Francis_Lightfoot_Lee" title="Francis Lightfoot Lee">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Henry_Lee" title="Richard Henry Lee">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Lee_III" title="Henry Lee III">Henry Lee III</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sim_Lee" title="Thomas Sim Lee">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> General <a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Lee" title="Robert E. Lee">Robert E. Lee</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Clive,_1st_Baron_Clive" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive">Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive</a>, 'Clive of India', born near Market Drayton</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rowland_Hill_(MP)" title="Rowland Hill (MP)">Sir Rowland Hill</a>, coordinator of the Geneva Bible and possible inspiration for <i><a href="/wiki/As_You_Like_It" title="As You Like It">As You Like It</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-Austin_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Austin-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rowland_Hill,_1st_Viscount_Hill" title="Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill">Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill</a>, Napoleonic era general</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Wood" title="Roy Wood">Roy Wood</a>, of Wem, in the band <a href="/wiki/Wizzard" title="Wizzard">Wizzard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stewart_Lee" title="Stewart Lee">Stewart Lee</a>, stand-up comedian, writer and director</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sybil_Ruscoe" title="Sybil Ruscoe">Sybil Ruscoe</a>, TV and radio presenter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trevor_Rees-Jones_(bodyguard)" title="Trevor Rees-Jones (bodyguard)">Trevor Rees-Jones</a>, bodyguard and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tricia_Sullivan" title="Tricia Sullivan">Tricia Sullivan</a>, American science fiction author, lives in Shropshire</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilfred_Owen" title="Wilfred Owen">Wilfred Owen</a>, leading <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Farr" title="William Farr">William Farr</a>, epidemiologist and early bio-statistician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Griffith_Thomas" class="mw-redirect" title="William Henry Griffith Thomas">William Henry Griffith Thomas</a> (1861–1924), <a href="/wiki/Evangelical" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical">evangelical</a> <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a> theologian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Penny_Brookes" title="William Penny Brookes">William Penny Brookes</a>, from Much Wenlock, founder of <a href="/wiki/Wenlock_Olympian_Games" title="Wenlock Olympian Games">Wenlock Olympian Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wycherley" title="William Wycherley">William Wycherley</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_Restoration" class="mw-redirect" title="English Restoration">Restoration</a> dramatist and playwright known for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Country_Wife" title="The Country Wife">The Country Wife</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:STFC_-_New_Meadow_(Aerial).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/STFC_-_New_Meadow_%28Aerial%29.jpg/220px-STFC_-_New_Meadow_%28Aerial%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/STFC_-_New_Meadow_%28Aerial%29.jpg/330px-STFC_-_New_Meadow_%28Aerial%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/STFC_-_New_Meadow_%28Aerial%29.jpg/440px-STFC_-_New_Meadow_%28Aerial%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4272" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/New_Meadow" title="New Meadow">New Meadow</a> football stadium, home to <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Town_Football_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Shrewsbury Town Football Club">Shrewsbury Town Football Club</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hawkstone_international_2007_hawkstone_hill_01_jamie_clarke.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Hawkstone_international_2007_hawkstone_hill_01_jamie_clarke.jpg/220px-Hawkstone_international_2007_hawkstone_hill_01_jamie_clarke.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Hawkstone_international_2007_hawkstone_hill_01_jamie_clarke.jpg/330px-Hawkstone_international_2007_hawkstone_hill_01_jamie_clarke.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Hawkstone_international_2007_hawkstone_hill_01_jamie_clarke.jpg/440px-Hawkstone_international_2007_hawkstone_hill_01_jamie_clarke.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1748" data-file-height="973" /></a><figcaption>Hawkstone Motocross Circuit</figcaption></figure> <p>There are a significant number of sporting clubs and facilities in Shropshire, many of which are found in <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury#Sport" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Telford#Sport" title="Telford">Telford</a> in addition to a number of clubs found locally throughout the county. Shropshire is home to a variety of established amateur, semi-pro and professional sports clubs. </p><p>The county is home to one of five <a href="/wiki/National_Sports_Centres" class="mw-redirect" title="National Sports Centres">National Sports Centres</a>. Situated at <a href="/wiki/Lilleshall_Hall" title="Lilleshall Hall">Lilleshall Hall</a> just outside <a href="/wiki/Newport,_Shropshire" title="Newport, Shropshire">Newport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lilleshall" title="Lilleshall">Lilleshall</a>, this is where the <a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">1966 England National football team</a> trained for two weeks prior to their success in the <a href="/wiki/1966_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1966 FIFA World Cup">World Cup of 1966</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Football">Football</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Football"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The three highest <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a> (and only professional) clubs in the county are <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Town_F.C." title="Shrewsbury Town F.C.">Shrewsbury Town</a> (<a href="/wiki/EFL_League_One" title="EFL League One">EFL League One</a>), <a href="/wiki/A.F.C._Telford_United" class="mw-redirect" title="A.F.C. Telford United">A.F.C. Telford United</a> (<a href="/wiki/Southern_Football_League" title="Southern Football League">Southern League Premier Division Central</a>) and <a href="/wiki/The_New_Saints_F.C." title="The New Saints F.C.">The New Saints</a> (<a href="/wiki/Welsh_Premier_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Welsh Premier League">Welsh Premier League</a>) in Oswestry. </p><p>There are numerous semi-professional football clubs in the lower leagues. The <a href="/wiki/Sport_governing_body" class="mw-redirect" title="Sport governing body">governing body</a> in the county is the <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Football_Association" title="Shropshire Football Association">Shropshire Football Association</a>, who organise a number of county-wide cup competitions, including the <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Senior_Cup" title="Shropshire Senior Cup">Shropshire Senior Cup</a>. In 2020 the <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_County_Football_League" title="Shropshire County Football League">Shropshire County Football League</a> was created, replacing the <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Premier_League" title="Shropshire Premier League">Shropshire Premier League</a>. As of the 2022–23 football season<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> the following Shropshire clubs play in these English leagues (the highest team of each club shown only): </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/English_football_league_system" title="English football league system">Level</a></th> <th>League</th> <th>Clubs </th></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/EFL_League_One" title="EFL League One">League One</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Town_F.C." title="Shrewsbury Town F.C.">Shrewsbury Town</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Southern_Football_League" title="Southern Football League">Southern League Premier Division Central</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/A.F.C._Telford_United" class="mw-redirect" title="A.F.C. Telford United">AFC Telford United</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Midland_Football_League" title="Midland Football League">Midland League</a> Premier Division </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Market_Drayton_Town_F.C." title="Market Drayton Town F.C.">Market Drayton Town</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shifnal_Town_F.C." title="Shifnal Town F.C.">Shifnal Town</a>, <a href="/wiki/Whitchurch_Alport_F.C." title="Whitchurch Alport F.C.">Whitchurch Alport</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">10 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Midland_Football_League" title="Midland Football League">Midland League</a> Division One </td> <td><a href="/wiki/A.F.C._Bridgnorth" title="A.F.C. Bridgnorth">AFC Bridgnorth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Haughmond_F.C." title="Haughmond F.C.">Haughmond</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shawbury_United_F.C." title="Shawbury United F.C.">Shawbury United</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/North_West_Counties_Football_League" title="North West Counties Football League">North West Counties League</a> Division One South </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ellesmere_Rangers_F.C." title="Ellesmere Rangers F.C.">Ellesmere Rangers</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Also, some clubs situated near the Welsh border play in the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_football_league_system" title="Welsh football league system">Welsh league system</a>: </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Welsh_football_league_system" title="Welsh football league system">Level</a></th> <th>League</th> <th>Clubs </th></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cymru_Premier" title="Cymru Premier">Cymru Premier</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_New_Saints_F.C." title="The New Saints F.C.">The New Saints</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mid_Wales_Football_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Mid Wales Football League">Mid Wales Football League</a> Northern Division </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bishops_Castle_Town_F.C." title="Bishops Castle Town F.C.">Bishop's Castle Town</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_sports">Other sports</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: Other sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The historic <a href="/wiki/Wenlock_Olympian_Society_Annual_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="Wenlock Olympian Society Annual Games">Wenlock Olympian Society Annual Games</a> (begun 1850) are held annually in <a href="/wiki/Much_Wenlock" title="Much Wenlock">Much Wenlock</a> during the second weekend in July. A four-day festival, the Games include cricket, volleyball, tennis, bowls, badminton, triathlon, 10k road race, track and field events, archery, five-a-side football, veteran cycle events, clay pigeon shooting and a golf competition. </p><p>The county <a href="/wiki/Category:Golf_clubs_and_courses_in_Shropshire" title="Category:Golf clubs and courses in Shropshire">has a number</a> of private and public <a href="/wiki/Golf_course" title="Golf course">golf courses</a>, including the <a href="/wiki/Church_Stretton#Golf_course" title="Church Stretton">Church Stretton Golf Club</a>, situated on the slopes of the <a href="/wiki/Long_Mynd" title="Long Mynd">Long Mynd</a>. It is the oldest 18-hole golf course in Shropshire, opened in 1898, and one of the highest in the United Kingdom. There is one notable horse racing <a href="/wiki/Racecourse" class="mw-redirect" title="Racecourse">racecourse</a> in Shropshire, near Ludlow, the <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Racecourse" title="Ludlow Racecourse">Ludlow Racecourse</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nocturanl_barlie.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Nocturanl_barlie.jpg/220px-Nocturanl_barlie.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Nocturanl_barlie.jpg/330px-Nocturanl_barlie.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Nocturanl_barlie.jpg/440px-Nocturanl_barlie.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="425" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Star_Newport_Nocturne" class="mw-redirect" title="Shropshire Star Newport Nocturne">Shropshire Star Newport Nocturne</a> bike race 2006</figcaption></figure> <p>The area also has a rich motorsports heritage, with the <a href="/wiki/Loton_Park_Hillclimb" class="mw-redirect" title="Loton Park Hillclimb">Loton Park Hillclimb</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hawkstone_Park_Motocross_Circuit" title="Hawkstone Park Motocross Circuit">Hawkstone Park Motocross Circuit</a> situated near Shrewsbury. <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Motocross_Club" title="Shrewsbury Motocross Club">Shrewsbury Motocross Club</a> has staged <a href="/wiki/Motocross" title="Motocross">motocross</a> events in the area for over 30 years. There is additionally an ice hockey club in the county, the <a href="/wiki/Telford_Tigers" title="Telford Tigers">Telford Tigers</a>. </p><p>One of the biggest one-day events in Shropshire and the biggest one-day cycle race in the UK is the <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Star_Newport_Nocturne" class="mw-redirect" title="Shropshire Star Newport Nocturne">Shropshire Star Newport Nocturne</a>, founded 1970; held every four years, it is Britain's only floodlit cycle race.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The county has one <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">American football</a> team, <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Revolution" title="Shropshire Revolution">Shropshire Revolution</a>, which was founded in 2006, and is a club in the <a href="/wiki/British_American_Football_League" title="British American Football League">British American Football League</a>. Former teams in the county have included the <a href="/wiki/Wrekin_Giants" title="Wrekin Giants">Wrekin Giants</a>, which ran from 1985 to 1989 and the <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Giants" class="mw-redirect" title="Shropshire Giants">Shropshire Giants</a> which ran in 1989. Shropshire has a number of rugby clubs, including <a href="/wiki/Newport_(Salop)_Rugby_Union_Football_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Newport (Salop) Rugby Union Football Club">Newport (Salop) Rugby Union Football Club</a>, the highest-leveled team in the county, playing in the <a href="/wiki/National_League_3_Midlands" class="mw-redirect" title="National League 3 Midlands">National League 3 Midlands</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/7603_Salopia" class="mw-redirect" title="7603 Salopia">7603 Salopia</a> – an <a href="/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">asteroid</a> named after the county</li> <li><a href="/wiki/53rd_(Shropshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot">53rd Regiment of Foot</a> – former <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> regiment</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Shrewsbury" class="mw-redirect" title="Diocese of Shrewsbury">Diocese of Shrewsbury</a> – Roman Catholic <a href="/wiki/Diocese" title="Diocese">diocese</a> which covers all of Shropshire</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etymological_list_of_counties_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Etymological list of counties of the United Kingdom">Etymological list of counties of the United Kingdom</a> – list of name origins</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Healthcare_in_Shropshire" title="Healthcare in Shropshire">Healthcare in Shropshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Archives" title="Shropshire Archives">Shropshire Archives</a> – collects and makes accessible archives and books relating to the county</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Blue_cheese" class="mw-redirect" title="Shropshire Blue cheese">Shropshire Blue cheese</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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.cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/legal-and-democratic-services/shropshire-lieutenancy/">"Shropshire Lieutenancy | Shropshire Council"</a>. Government of the United Kingdom<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 April</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Shropshire+Lieutenancy+%7C+Shropshire+Council&rft.pub=Government+of+the+United+Kingdom&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shropshire.gov.uk%2Flegal-and-democratic-services%2Fshropshire-lieutenancy%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShropshire" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/mid2022populationestimatesbylieutenancyareas/1997lieutenancyarea2022estimatesfinal3.xlsx">"Mid-2022 population estimates by Lieutenancy areas (as at 1997) for England and Wales"</a>. <i>Office for National Statistics</i>. 24 June 2024<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 September</span> 2018</span>. <q>The term Salopian, derived from Salop, is still used to mean 'from Shropshire' and Salop can also mean the county town of Shrewsbury.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Shropshirehistory.com&rft.atitle=Shropshire+County+Council&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fshropshirehistory.com%2Fgovernment%2Fcounty.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShropshire" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-114"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-114">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.calverhall-village.co.uk/Shropshirepage.htm">About Shropshire</a> Calverhall Village</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-shropshirehistory2-115"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-shropshirehistory2_115-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170430084407/http://shropshirehistory.com/government/county.htm">"Shropshire County Council"</a>. <i>Shropshirehistory.com</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 September</span> 2018</span>. <q>One of the reasons why Salop was unpopular was the fact that if you add the letter "E" and make it "Salope", this is a French word and means "B*tch or Loose Woman".</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Shropshirehistory.com&rft.atitle=Shropshire+County+Council&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fshropshirehistory.com%2Fgovernment%2Fcounty.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShropshire" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-116"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-116">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/6045898.stm">County's name change colonel dies</a> BBC News</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LG-48124-3797-117"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LG-48124-3797_117-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGazette48124" class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/48124/page/3797">"No. 48124"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Gazette" title="The London Gazette">The London Gazette</a></i>. 11 March 1980. p. 3797.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+London+Gazette&rft.atitle=No.+48124&rft.pages=3797&rft.date=1980-03-11&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegazette.co.uk%2FLondon%2Fissue%2F48124%2Fpage%2F3797&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShropshire" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-118"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-118">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10210367&c_id=10001043">Vision of Britain</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071001030212/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10210367&c_id=10001043">Archived</a> 1 October 2007 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> – Ancient county boundaries</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-119"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-119">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120111220941/http://www.wmra.gov.uk/documents/WMRA%20Green%20belt%5B1%5D.pdf">"Archived copy"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. 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href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tim Clarkson's biography has a detailed discussion of Æthelflæd' burhs.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">thought to be <a href="/wiki/Whitchurch,_Shropshire" title="Whitchurch, Shropshire">Whitchurch</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:2_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which would make sense given the strategic importance of the Roman Road link via the <a href="/wiki/Via_Devana" title="Via Devana">Via Devana</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-124"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-124">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/RAF_Shawbury" title="RAF Shawbury">RAF Shawbury</a> is located approximately <i>7 miles (11 km)</i> <a href="/wiki/Boxing_the_compass" class="mw-redirect" title="Boxing the compass">NE</a> of <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a>, and <i>12 miles (19 km)</i> <a href="/wiki/Boxing_the_compass" class="mw-redirect" title="Boxing the compass">NW</a> of <a href="/wiki/Telford" title="Telford">Telford</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shropshire&action=edit&section=55" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Gareth Roddy, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13619462.2018.1471683">"'Westward on the high-hilled plains': the literature of Shropshire and the early 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href="/wiki/Bishop%27s_Castle" title="Bishop's Castle">Bishop's Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgnorth" title="Bridgnorth">Bridgnorth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broseley" title="Broseley">Broseley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_Stretton" title="Church Stretton">Church Stretton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleobury_Mortimer" title="Cleobury Mortimer">Cleobury Mortimer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clun" title="Clun">Clun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Craven_Arms" title="Craven Arms">Craven Arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellesmere,_Shropshire" title="Ellesmere, Shropshire">Ellesmere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow">Ludlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Market_Drayton" title="Market Drayton">Market Drayton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Much_Wenlock" title="Much Wenlock">Much Wenlock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newport,_Shropshire" title="Newport, Shropshire">Newport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oswestry" title="Oswestry">Oswestry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shifnal" 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