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Online school admission resultsYou can view the allocation results for Reception and Junior places online from midnight on 12 April 2012.School AdmissionsAppeal against allocation of school place Diary 19APRShropshire Building Awards 2012 The second Shropshire Building Awards are to be held on 19 April 2012.
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Shropshire: Definition from Answers.com

To the south of Clun is the Welsh border town of Knighton.
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There are numerous amateur football clubs in lower leagues, the highest of which is Market Drayton Town.
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The British sitcom The Green Green Grass is set in Shropshire, with Boycie's wife being surprised and asking "what's Shropshire?" upon learning she was moving there, used in the original BBC advertisement of the series.
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There are a number of major railway lines running through the county, including the Welsh Marches Line, the Cambrian Line, the Shrewsbury to Chester Line and the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line, as well as heritage railways including the well established Severn Valley Railway.
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Contents 1 History 1.1 Etymology 1.2 County extent 2 Geography 2.1 North Shropshire 2.2 South Shropshire 2.3 Climate 2.4 Geology 3 Towns and villages 4 Politics 4.1 Divisions and environs 4.2 Local government 1974-2009 4.2.1 2009 restructuring 5 Transport 6 Economy 6.1 Statistics 7 Education 8 Places of interest 9 Famous people 10 Cultural references 11 Sport 11.1 Football 11.2 Other sports 12 See also 13 References 14 External links History Main article: History of Shropshire The area was once part of the lands of the Cornovii, which consisted of the modern day counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, north Staffordshire, north Herefordshire and eastern parts of Powys.
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It was part of the kingdom of Mercia during Anglo-Saxon times.
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Shropshire - Tourist Information and Leisure Guide by Virtual ...

The Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, set in the beautiful Severn Valley is one our most popular destinations.
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Latest News For our latest updates follow @vshropshire on Twitter or click below for current news and features.
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Visit the remains of Roman Cities, Medieval Castles, Ancient Churches and much more.
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Don't miss Much Wenlock where Dr. William Penny Brookes inspired the Modern Olympic Games, or historic Bridgnorth, perched dramatically on a cliff overlooking the River Severn.
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Shropshire Accommodation From a luxury suite in an ancient castle to a cosy country cottage, Shropshire can't be beaten for holiday accommodation to suite all budgets and tastes.
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In Out & About you will find the latest photo features from around the region.
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Shropshire Tourism - Tourist Board Information and Accommodation

1 2 3 4 Shropshire - Real Blue Skies Thinking Many people ask us (and themselves) "So where exactly is Shropshire anyway"?
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Indeed ever since those clever Romans discovered Shropshire as an ideal place for some decent R&R, Shropshire has been offering comfy beds, good food, proper ales and the like to the weary.
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Captain Matthew Webb, born on 19 January 1848 at Dawley in Shropshire, was the first person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids!
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The town is also known as the home of gingerbread which has been baked to a secret recipe in the town for over 200 years.
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Our Sporting Life: The Science of Sport exhibition 04/07/2011 - 09/09/2012 read more » Our Sporting Life - Sporting Heroes 01/03/2012 - 09/09/2012 read more » CORE - A Digital Art Installation 23/03/2012 - 30/09/2012 read more » View All » Back a page < Top of page ^ Home About Shropshire Places To Stay Things To Do What's On?
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You will also find the tomb of Thomas and Elizabeth Bulkeley who are distant relatives of 3 presidents of the United States.
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Breeds of Livestock - Shropshire Sheep - Welcome to the Department ...

Records are not clear as to exactly how the breed was developed.
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The fleeces are considered medium wool type with a fiber diameter of 24.5 to 32.5 microns and a numerical count of 48 to 60.
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Blackburn - Executive Secretary, PO Box 635 Harvard, IL 60033-0635 Phone: 815-943-2034 Who's Who in U.S.
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Shropshires were first exhibited in a special class for short-wooled sheep at the Royal Show in Gloucester in 1833.
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The rams have a lean, well- muscled body structure which they transmit to their offspring, making them popular with the commercial as well as the purebred breeder.
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The late 1880's, the 1890's and the early years of the twentieth century saw the greatest period of expansion of the Shropshire breed in the United States and Canada.
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Shropshire travel guide - Wikitravel - Free Worldwide Travel ...

Choose from the award winning Wollerton Old Hall Garden near Market Drayton, the Dorothy Clive Garden near Market Drayton and Hawkstone Park and Follies near Shrewsbury to name a few.
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Royal Air Force Museum Cosford [2], home of the National Cold War Exhibition.
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Wroxeter was also the city of Camelot from the ledgend of King Arthur.
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Shrewsbury, Shropshire's county town and home to over 660 listed buildings including magnificent black and white examples.
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In the north is Cheshire and, to the east, Staffordshire and the West Midlands conurbation.
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Choose from a whole host of wines including Shropshire Gold, Wrekin Reserve and Wroxeter Medium.
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Shropshire Tourism - Tourist Board Information and Accommodation

Feature on this website » IT & Marketing Services Shropshire Tourism offer a wide range of services from starter websites to full company branding.
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Shrewsbury almost surrounded by the River Severn and birthplace of Charles Darwin, is a medieval delight of black and white buildings.
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The Shropshire landscape reflects the fact that Shropshire is geologically unique and creates the special habitats that ensures that Shropshire wildlife is so diverse.
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Shropshire has many traditional market towns including gourmet Ludlow and the county town of Shrewsbury.
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Welcome to the American Shropshire Registry Association website

[Click here for more information (.pdf)] American Shropshire Registry Association scholarships The Shropshire scholarship information and application is available on the Youth page.
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After some investigation, the ASRA Board of Directors has voted to begin allowing breeders to officially name their sheep.
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[Click here for complete obituary.] Read about Bobbi Platt as a Face of America Patricia Ann Groverman, a city girl who became a tireless leader for Sonoma County agriculture, died Monday at her home in Petaluma, Calif. [Click here for complete obituary.] Shropshire Centerstage The place where one Shropshire breeder a month can share their story and promote their Shropshires in a unique and effective manner!
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See the new Junior Logo on the Youth page here.
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Shropshire - 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica - Free Online

There are great encaustic tile and brick works in the Broseley district, where also is an old-established manufacture of tobaccopipes; while at Coalport there are china works.
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The hundred of Baschurch had its meeting- place at Baschurch in the time of Edward the Confessor; in the reign of Henry I. it was represented mainly by the hundred of Pimhill, the meeting-place of which was at Pimhill.
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Of the first the main route to the north-west runs from Wolverhampton by Wellington, Shrewsbury and Gobowen to Chester, with a branch from Wellington to Crewe.
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In 1535 the Hereford portion included the additional deanery of Bridgnorth; it now forms the archdeaconry of Ludlow, with the additional deaneries of Montgomery, Bishops Castle and Church Stretton.
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The Silurian rocks which follow unconformably are represented in the Long Mountain and Clun Forest regions by sandstones and shales, and along Wenlock Edge by highly fossiliferous mudstones and limestones; they include the Llandovery, Wenlock and Ludlow series, and the limestones are famed for their rich marine fauna.
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The Old Red Sandstone, a great series of red marls, sandstones and thin impure limestones (cornstones), conformably succeeds the Silurian rocks, and occupies the south-eastern area (whence it extends into Herefordshire); it also makes extensive out-liers at Clun and Bettws-y-Crwyn; the rocks have yielded fish and crustacea.
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Shropshire - Familypedia

File:Nocturanl barlie.jpgShropshire Star Newport Nocturne Bike race 2006 The area also has a rich motorsports heritage, with the Loton Park Hillclimb and Hawkstone Park Motocross Circuit situated near Shrewsbury.
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Once found, upon Porky's inquiry, he replies that the term "Shropshire Slasher" also refers to his occupation as well as his moniker.
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In the Borough of Telford and Wrekin borough has two selective schools, all of which are located in Newport, these are the Adams' Grammar School and Newport Girls' High School (both of which are ranked within the top thirty schools in the country), and the independent preparatory school Castle House, in Telford itself is the Thomas Telford School is also a notable school, ranked as one of the best comprehensive schools in England.[58] There is considerable rivalry between many of the county's schools.
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The list of authors can be seen in the page history.
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Existing non- metropolitan counties with small populations, such as Cornwall, 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).
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Farming is more pastoral than the arable found in the north of the county.
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GENUKI: Shropshire, England - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

A Dictionary of Genealogy & Archaic Terms, Dick Eastman/Randy Jones.
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This makes it very easy to search all the batches for a particular geographic location using just the last name you are searching for - something that is not possible directly from the LDS site without doing a lot of typing.
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Social Life and Customs Mother Bedford - "a website devoted primarily to the history of Old-Bedford County, Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War period" - a fascinating site including items of general historical interest, e.g.: The Celebration of Christmas.
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Poorhouses and Poor Law Etc A site "dedicated to the Workhouse - its buildings, its inmates, its staff and administrators, and even its poets..." - The Workhouse - created by Peter Higginbotham.
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Information about which Local Register Office to contact may be found in Brett Langston's list of Shropshire Registration Districts (1837-1974).
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Bibliography Salter, Mike - The Old Parish Churches of Shropshire.
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Kenneth L. Shropshire

His expert views have been presented in Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, National Public Radio, and Nightline.
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He is also the Director of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative.
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Shropshire is also Special Counsel at the law firm Duane Morris LLP.
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Invest in Shropshire – Shropshire Council

Find out what these are and how they provide opportunity for your business What's new in Shropshire?
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The view from my office Where to base your business Relocating to Shropshire Where we excel What's new in Shropshire?
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Shropshire - goshropshire.com

Locals often refer to the county as Salop, a historic abbreviation of the word Shropshire and the first county council here of the 1800s was actually known as Salop County Council.
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This county has historically been known for its coal, copper, lead sand and stone mining.
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It also has strong agricultural links and is well known for related industries such as fishing and forestry.
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This is one of the more rural areas of England that contains some of the most charming and beautiful countryside in the country.
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Problems with the area continued into medieval times as the area was, at times, part of the Welsh Marches which brought it under conflict between Wales and England.
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Shropshire Sheep Breeders' Association - Welcome!

Our site covers all aspects of the Shropshire breed, which is well known for producing high quality meat and wool, as well as for grazing in tree plantations.
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Shropshire Sheep in Ireland Shropshire Sheep in France Merchandise Commercial Opportunities Current Commercial Opportunities Sheep in Trees Quality Meat Production Shropshire Sheep Breed Improvement Scheme Stock For Sale Sheep for sale Publications and Forms SSBA Publications SSBA Forms Shows & Galleries Agricultural/Sheep Shows Shows in 2011 Previous Years Galleries Shropshires in the UK Shropshires Around the World Links Contact Welcome!
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( Under - News > Livestock News) STOCK FOR SALE Updated 03-02-12 Last updated on: 12.03.2012 For more information about the Shropshire Sheep Breeders Association please contact The Secretary, Simon Mackay on UK (0)1744 811124 Email: (C) Shropshire Sheep Breeders Association Registered Charity No: 1115599 Designed by
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How to get to Shropshire

By Bus National Express run various bus services to the county from the main airports and cities.
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You can also reach Bridgnorth via Kidderminster on the Severn Valley Steam Railway - see www.svr.co.uk By Car The M54 motorway provides easy access to Shropshire by car via the M6.
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Visit our Town Guides for Google Maps of the main communities in Shropshire View Larger Map Information Report a problem Information is accurate at the time of initial publication, however should you notice a problem please report here, making sure you include the name of the page and full details of the error.
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Share it..with Shropshire

To find out how to get your business listed Click Here Featured Article We asked Shropshire smokers to give their normal tobacco cigarettes a miss and try E- Lites for the week and here is how they got on.
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Many of these will be heavy and incorporate hail or thunder, with the otherwise gentle northwesterly winds becoming gusty around them.
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With hundreds of businesses now listed in our directory, it has fast become the essential Shropshire Business Directory to find local businesses and services.
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Shropshire Businesses - Add your company for free or upgrade for a small fee yearly fee.
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Family Facts for: Shropshire

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137- 4 81,923 Historical Documents & Family Trees with Shropshire 12,214 Census and Voter Lists 487 Immigration Records 15,569 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths 49,684 Member Family Trees 3,969 Military Records View all results > Look up other family name ^
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Shropshire - Self Catering - Holiday Cottage in Shropshire

Very peaceful and quiet at the property, good living room with great views About Shropshire Shropshire, alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated Shrops, is a county in the West Midlands region of England.
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The town enjoys weekly markets, festivals such as the famous Annual Real Ale Festival and regular fairs, with the Michaelmas Fair being particularly popular.
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The holiday cottage is surrounded by wooded pastures and distant views of Stiperstones and Long Mynd Hills.
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Enclosed lawned garden with natural spring fed stream and decked sitting area with garden furniture, BBQ, child's swing and Wendy House.
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Note: Property is accessed via farm track with a steep concreted descent at the end - take care during winter weather.
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Much wildlife is evident including badgers, foxes and a huge number of song birds as well as buzzards, sparrow hawks and owls - we have even had our own nesting kestrels.
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Carpets in Shrewsbury | Shropshire Carpets | Shrewsbury, Shropshire

We stock an extensive range of flooring to suit any budget.
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Our vibrant showroom has been designed to accommodate a vast range of products from leading manufacturers, and whether customers prefer traditional or modern designs, the choice on offer is extensive - and at very affordable prices.
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Our values are the belief that excellent customer service is a priority, and customers needs and budgets are catered for.
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