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unusual facts about Wrexham & Shropshire


WSMR

Wrexham, Shropshire and Marylebone Railway, a former train operating company in the United Kingdom


Abcott

It lies on the west side of the River Clun and its flood plain, just opposite from the village of Clungunford, which is the parish the hamlet is part of.

Alan Murchison

In 2007, Murchison jumped on the opportunity to buy the former Hibiscus restaurant in Ludlow, Shropshire from Claude Bosi.

Battle of Ludford Bridge

Richard retreated towards Ludlow, before making a stand at a fortified position near Ludford, Shropshire on 12 October.

Battle of Shrewsbury

At least part of the fighting is believed to have taken place at what is now Battlefield in Shropshire, England, some three miles north of the centre of Shrewsbury.

Billingsley, Shropshire

Then in 1147, it passed hands from Shrewsbury Abbey to the Abbey of Seez in Normandy After this it passed to the Morehall family, the Clopton family and the Harewell family.

Bishop Bennet Way

It is named after William Bennet (4 March 1745 - 1820), Bishop of Cork and Ross (1790–1794) and subsequently Bishop of Cloyne (1794–1820), who carried out detailed surveys of roman roads including those between Deva (Chester) and Mediolanum (Whitchurch).

Clive, Shropshire

The village is often used by the local Hunt, The North Shropshire Foxhounds, from time to time there are meets around the village.

Copthorne, Shropshire

In particular, Gains Park, a 1990s housing estate west of the hospital, is often passed off as Copthorne (or sometimes as Shelton or Bicton Heath)- despite sharing the SY3 postcode it is completely separated from Copthorne and Shelton while Bicton Heath refers to an older settlement along the A458.

Surrounding Copthorne Road, the suburb is mainly residential and runs from the junction where Copthorne Bank meets New Street, in the north east near Frankwell Island, to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (previously known as Copthorne Hospital) and the suburb of Shelton to the west and south-west, on the outskirts of town.

Daniels Mill

Daniels Mill, Shropshire, a watermill near Bridgnorth in the English county of Shropshire

Edgmond, Shropshire

The folk song "The Edgmond Man's Souling Song" was released by folk musicians John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris on their 1976 album Among The Many Attractions at the Show will be a Really High Class Band.

George Forester

He was the only son of Brooke Forester of Dothill in Wellington and Elizabeth daughter and heir of George Weld of Willey Park.

George Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester

He died at 3 Carlton Gardens, London, in February 1886, aged 78, and was buried at Willey parish church.

Harley, Shropshire

This is the only part of the pre-Reformation church remaining, as it was mostly rebuilt in 1845-6 by a local architect Samuel Pountney Smith.

Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis

Born in Oakley Park, at Bromfield, Shropshire, into a landed and titled family, she was the daughter of Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, and Barbara, granddaughter of William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis.

Hurleston Junction

The Ellesmere Canal as first envisioned was a huge undertaking, running from the River Mersey to the River Dee and on to Shrewsbury, with branches connecting Ruabon, Llangollen, Bersham, Llanymynech and possibly Whitchurch and Wem.

Kenley, Shropshire

The historian Archibald Alison and statistician William Farr were born in Kenley.

Little Brampton

Little Brampton is situated on a notable crossroads in the Clun valley, where the B4385 (from Lydbury North) and B4368 (running between Clun and Craven Arms) roads meet, as well as the lane down to the village of Clunbury.

Little Stretton, Shropshire

Oliver Sandys (1892-1964), widow of Caradoc Evans and a novelist in her own right, lived at The Ancient House, across the road from the church, from the 1950s.

Llanymynech

The CR mainline from Whitchurch to Welshpool (Buttington Junction), via Ellesmere, Whittington, Oswestry and Llanymynech, closed on 18 January 1965 in favour of the more viable Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway route.

Llanymynech and Pant

The two main villages within the parish are Llanymynech and Pant, though only the English half of Llanymynech is in the parish as the other half is in Powys, Wales.

Lucarno

Retired to stud for the 2009 season, Lucarno will stand at Wood Farm Stud in Ellerdine, Wellington, Shropshire, where he will be covering predominantly National Hunt mares, his size, strong physique, soundness and excellent conformation making him eminently suitable for that role.

Marton, Shropshire

Marton Pool is a body of water near the village which is the source of the Rea Brook.

Neen Savage

The River Rea, which was historically known as the River Neen, flows past the hamlet and a notable ford exists.

Neenton

The Rea Brook/River Rea, which was historically known as the River Neen, flows by the hamlet.

Old Woods, Shropshire

The dialling code for here is 01939 and the postcode is SY4 3xx.

Pontesford

On 2 April 1990, the Pontesford-Linley Fault - registered an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale, known as the Bishop's Castle earthquake.

Prees, Shropshire

Persons associated with Prees include Captain Black, whose manor is located near the war memorial, and Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, whose doric column stands in Shrewsbury.

Reuben Jones

Reuben (Ben) Jones (born 19 October 1932 in Newport, Shropshire, England; died 3 January 1990 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire) was an Olympic equestrian rider who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Sambrook, Shropshire

The 19th-century village church, St Luke's, was designed by Benjamin Ferrey.

Shelton, Shropshire

It has a cricket team which played in the Shropshire Premier Cricket League until the league was wound up after the 2011 season.

Shrewsbury to Chester Line

On 28 April 2008, Wrexham & Shropshire began providing services along the section of line between Wrexham General and Shrewsbury, continuing via Wolverhampton to London Marylebone.

Sir John Astley, 2nd Baronet

On 27 May 1711, he married Mary Prynce, daughter of Francis Prynce in Tibberton, Shropshire.

Sir William Forester

William Forester succeeded to Dothill Park in about 1675 under the will of his helf-brother Richard Steventon (died 1659) and this became the main family seat at least until his grandson obtained Willey Park by marrying the heiress of George Weld.

St Martin's, Shropshire

In the 19th century a canal was constructed through St Martin's Moor by Thomas Telford linking the industrial areas around Ruabon to the canal network.

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Battlefield

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Battlefield, is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Battlefield, Shropshire, England.

Stapleton, Shropshire

The church organ is among the top six hundred in the country and there is a small tapestry piece in the nave said to have been worked by Mary, Queen of Scots.

Stuart Meeson

Stuart Meeson, younger son of Trevor and Mary Meeson of Newport, Shropshire, was educated at Adams' Grammar School (1983-1990), Newport.

The North Ship

Some of the poems were composed while Larkin was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, but the bulk were written in the period 1943 to 1944 when he was running the public library in Wellington, Shropshire and writing his second novel A Girl in Winter.

The Old Curiosity Shop

Nell, having fallen in with a number of characters, some villainous and some kind, succeeds in leading her grandfather to safety in a far-off village (identified by Dickens as Tong, Shropshire), but this comes at a considerable cost to Nell's health.

Thomas Farnolls Pritchard

Pritchard's monuments can be found in churches across Shropshire, including St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury and churches at Acton Round, Ludford and Barrow.

Tom Lovatt-Williams

What was not publicised at the time was that it was based on his childhood experiences at Ellesmere, near Oswestry, where he was born.

Tong, Shropshire

St. Bartholomew's was chosen by Simon Jenkins of The Times in 1999 as one of the best 1,000 churches (out of 15,000) in England.

W. Adams

W Adams was the first manager of Shrewsbury Town F.C. He managed the club for seven years, between 1 May 1905 and 31 May 1912, during which period the club moved from Copthorne barracks ground to the Gay Meadow site.

Walter Flight

The later papers were chiefly upon meteorites, dealing in detail with the recorded circumstances of their fall, and with their mineralogical and chemical constituents; several, written in conjunction with Professor Story-Maskelyne, give accounts, published in the 'Philosophical Transactions,' of the meteorites which fell at Rowton in Shropshire, at Middlesbrough, England, and at Cranbourne, Australia.

Withington, Shropshire

On the retirement of the last vicar of Withington the parish was joined to the parish of Upton Magna, then to Uffington and is now part of a team ministry.

Yeaton

The River Perry flows by to the south, and on the other side is the hamlet of Grafton.

Yorton railway station

Yorton railway station serves the villages of Yorton and Clive in Shropshire, England.


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