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Towns in Shropshire
Towns in Shropshire
Shrewsbury - Shropshire's county town (population: 70,000) and the birthplace of Charles Darwin
Bridgnorth - a town divided into low and high towns, described by Charles I as providing 'the finest view'
Church Stretton - Shropshire's "Little Switzerland"
Ludlow - gastronomic capital of the Midlands and an official "slow" town
Much Wenlock - birthplace of the modern Olympics
Newport - one of Shropshire's market towns
Oswestry - a market town near the Shropshire/Wales border
Telford - the largest town (population: 130,000) and named after the engineer Thomas Telford
Whitchurch - market town on the Llangollen Canal
Wem - a small market town and home to the modern sweet pea
Ellesmere - in the heart of Shropshire's "meres and mosses" and home to 9 glacial meres (small lakes)
Market Drayton - a market town on the Shropshire Union Canal and the home of gingerbread
Shifnal - a town to the east of Telford, once an important staging post on the London to Holyhead road
Bishop's Castle - a traditional and very small old English town near the Welsh border
Clun - a tiny town in the southwest corner of the county, described by A.E. Housman as "the quietest place under the sun"
Cleobury Mortimer - a small town in southeast Shropshire, between the Clee Hills and Wyre Forest
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