• Shropshire was established during the division of Saxon Mercia into shires in the 10th century. It is first mentioned in 1006. After the Norman Conquest...
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    Shropshire (/ˈʃrɒpʃər, -ʃɪər/; historically Salop and abbreviated Shrops) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England, on the border with Wales...
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    village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin in Shropshire, England. Located on the bank of the River Severn, at the heart of the Ironbridge Gorge, it...
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  • The town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England, has a history that extends back at least as far as the year 901, but it could have been first settled earlier...
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    Shropshire Council, known between 1980 and 2009 as Shropshire County Council and prior to 1980 as Salop County Council, is the local authority for the...
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    Caynton Caves (category History of Shropshire)
    series of man-made underground chambers in the grounds of Caynton Hall, near Beckbury, Shropshire, England. Their original purpose and date of construction...
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    have taken place at what is now Battlefield, Shropshire, England, three miles (5 km) north of the centre of Shrewsbury. It is marked today by Battlefield...
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    Coracle (redirect from Coracles of India)
    are now[when?] seen regularly only in tourist areas of West Wales, and irregularly in Shropshire on the River Severn. A public house in Sundorne, Shrewsbury...
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    Shropshire Blue is a cow's milk cheese made in the United Kingdom. The cheese was first made in the 1970s at the Castle Stuart dairy in Inverness, Scotland...
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  • The Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway was a railway running from Shrewsbury, England to Llanymynech, Wales, with a branch to Criggion. It was...
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    Coalbrookdale by Night (category History of Shropshire)
    to symbolize the birth of the Industrial Revolution in the Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire, England. Loutherbourg undertook tours of England and Wales during...
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    position near Ludford, Shropshire on 12 October. Their troops excavated a defensive ditch in a field on the opposite side of the River Teme from Ludlow...
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    Roden is a hamlet in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England, six miles northeast of Shrewsbury. The little River Roden...
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  • was a rural district in Shropshire, England, from 1894 to 1934. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 based on part of the Whitchurch rural sanitary...
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    Between the late 11th century and 1844, the English county of Shropshire (or Salop) possessed a large exclave within the present-day Black Country and...
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    Battle of Maserfield was assumed for much of the twentieth century to have taken place at what is now Oswestry in Shropshire. The etymology of this name...
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    civil parish of Whitchurch Urban, in the north of Shropshire, England. It lies 2 miles (3 km) east of the Welsh border, 2 miles south of the Cheshire...
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  • the Severn. The hill fort on Caer Caradoc Hill in Shropshire is connected with the battle by virtue of its name. Local legend places it at British Camp...
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    HMS Shropshire was a Royal Navy (RN) heavy cruiser of the London sub-class of County-class cruisers. She is the only warship to have been named after...
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    Offa's Dyke (category History of Shropshire)
    Wye Valley and Shropshire Hills Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Most of the line of Offa's Dyke is designated as a public right of way, including...
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    Coalport porcelain (category History of Shropshire)
    Coalport, Shropshire, England was a centre of porcelain and pottery production between about 1795 ("inaccurately" claimed as 1750 by the company) and...
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  • This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Shropshire. Thomas Holte bef. 1544–1546 Thomas Bromley 1546–1555 Humphrey Onslow bef....
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  • 52.704°N 2.496°W / 52.704; -2.496 Wellington was a rural district in Shropshire, England from 1894 to 1974. It was formed under the Local Government Act...
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    Pengwern (category History of Shropshire)
    Pengwern was a Brythonic settlement of sub-Roman Britain situated in what is now the English county of Shropshire, adjoining the modern Welsh border....
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    Viroconium Cornoviorum (category History of Shropshire)
    city, one corner of which is now occupied by Wroxeter, a small village in Shropshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) east-south-east of Shrewsbury. At its...
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  • murder of Lesley Whittle occurred on 14 January 1975. Whittle, a teenage heiress, was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home in Highley, Shropshire, by Donald...
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    county town of Shropshire, England. It is sited on the River Severn, 33 miles (53 km) northwest of Wolverhampton, 15 miles (24 km) west of Telford, 31...
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  • 856; -2.723 North Shropshire was a rural district in Shropshire, England from 1967 to 1974. It was formed in 1967 by a merger of most of the Ellesmere Rural...
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    The Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade I listed Church of England church in Stokesay, Shropshire, England, adjacent to Stokesay Castle. The church...
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    covered all of modern Wales and the Welsh Marches of Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Cheshire and Gloucestershire. The City of Bristol was...
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