Much Wenlock
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town and civil parish in Shropshire, England
Key facts
- Population
- 2,877 (2011)
- Os grid reference
- SO623997
- Civil parish
- Much Wenlock
- Unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Ceremonial county
- Shropshire
- Region
- West Midlands
- Country
- England
- Sovereign state
- United Kingdom
- Post town
- MUCH WENLOCK
- Postcode district
- TF13
- Dialling code
- 01952
- Police
- West Mercia
- Fire
- Shropshire
- Ambulance
- West Midlands
- Uk parliament
- South Shropshire
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- market town
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Shropshire
- Population
- 2877
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- The Guildhall, Much Wenlock - geograph.org.uk - 100508.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01952
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- Commons category
- Much Wenlock
- OS grid reference
- SO623997
- postal code
- TF13
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P8168
- The Second World War
- twinned administrative body
- Cysoing
- P12749
- William Somerset Maugham
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Much Wenlock is a market town and parish in Shropshire, England; it is situated on the A458 road between Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth. Nearby, to the north-east, is the Ironbridge Gorge and Telford. The civil parish includes the villages of Homer (1 mile (1.6 km) north of the town), Wyke (2 miles (3 km) north-east), Atterley (2 miles (3 km) south-east), Stretton Westwood (2 miles (3 km) south-west) and Bourton (3 miles (5 km) south-west). The population of the civil parish, according to the 2001 Census, was 2,605, increasing to 2,877 by 2011.
Notable historic attractions in the town are Wenlock Priory, Wenlock Edge, Holy Trinity Church and the Guildhall. The Wenlock Olympian Games, established by William Penny Brookes in 1850, are centred in the town. Brookes is credited as a founding father of the modern Olympic Games and one of the London 2012 Summer Olympics mascots was named Wenlock, after the town.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Much Wenlock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.