Shawbury

Also known as Shawbury, Shropshire

Shawbury is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. The village is northeast of Shrewsbury and northwest of Telford.

Weather now

cached 589h ago

16°broken clouds

86% 3.3 m/s OpenWeatherMap

Place details

Locality: Shawbury
Region: England
Country: United Kingdom
Population: 2,317
Timezone: Europe/London

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Key facts

UK place.country: England
UK place.type: Village and civil parish
UK place.static_image_name: Shawbury parish church from the village centre.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: Shawbury parish church from the village
UK place.official_name: Shawbury
UK place.label_position: left
UK place.population: 2,872
UK place.population_ref: (2011)
UK place.civil_parish: Shawbury
UK place.unitary_england: Shropshire
UK place.lieutenancy_england: Shropshire
UK place.region: West Midlands
UK place.constituency_westminster: North Shropshire
UK place.post_town: SHREWSBURY
UK place.postcode_district: SY4
UK place.postcode_area: SY
UK place.dial_code: 01939
UK place.os_grid_reference: SJ550210

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Population: 2872
Image: Shawbury parish church from the village centre.jpg
Dialing code: 01939

Show 4 more facts

Commons category: Shawbury
postal code: SY4
OS grid reference: SJ550210
P12749: Gerhard Zemann

Sources (3)

via Wikidata · CC0

~3 min read

Article

11 sections

Contents

History
Geography
Governance
Landmarks
Notable people
Bus service
Sport
See also
Notes
References
External links

Shawbury is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. The village is northeast of Shrewsbury and northwest of Telford.

The village straddles the A53 between Shrewsbury and Market Drayton. The nearest railway station is at Yorton on the Welsh Marches Line for Shrewsbury/Crewe. The 2011 census recorded a population of 2,872 for the entire civil parish of Shawbury.