Though she had known him less than two days, Dorethea considered Mr Shrewsbury to be wonderfully urbane and civilised. |
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He had a plush house in Shrewsbury Road in upmarket Ballsbridge, as well as a number of other properties. |
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Mr Newell was educated at Shrewsbury College and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was an exhibitioner and honorary Demy. |
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In 1 Henry IV he is commended by Prince Harry after Shrewsbury, and sent with Westmorland to quell the northern rebels. |
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Matthew was a former pupil at the nearby Shrewsbury School, an exclusive private school, where he was a boarder until last summer. |
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He worked as a sales representative for an air conditioning company in Shrewsbury. |
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Former Albion Rovers, Meadowbank and Shrewsbury player who once overturned a teammate's car on the way to buy a paper. |
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But Shrewsbury jail had 91 per cent of prisoners doubling up, Leicester had 89 per cent and Preston 84 per cent. |
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Educated at Shrewsbury and at Christ Church, Oxford, he was devoted to study. |
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Begun by Arnulf de Montgomery, a son of Roger de Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury, it has an inner and outer bailey. |
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Shrewsbury Road's Sean Dunne is currently building apartments on Brighton Road in Foxrock. |
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In 1140, after the mysterious disappearance of a Shrewsbury clerk, the young Meriet was brought by his unloving father to a Benedictine monastery. |
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She was a small fast and shallow draft centerboard schooner and her rig except for foretopmasts and yankee was identical to the Shrewsbury Packets. |
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He forced his opponent to make a save with a sharp shot from a tight angle but, despite continuing to dominate possession, Shrewsbury remained toothless. |
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The Northern Ireland international has shaken off the dead leg suffered at Shrewsbury in midweek and has been deemed fit for City's final game of the season tomorrow. |
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But the longer the half wore on the sense a tad more craft, guile or cunning was needed to break through the formidable and sizeable Shrewsbury defence grew and grew. |
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The quiet of Shrewsbury Abbey is shattered when Brother Oswin, sent on an errand to deliver medicines, is discovered in a nearby forest, beaten within an inch of his life. |
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There are also a number of railway lines crossing over the area, which centre at Shrewsbury. |
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The A49 is the main road through the area, running north to south, from Shrewsbury to Herefordshire. |
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The only Met Office weather station in the county is located at Shawbury, which is in the north, between Shrewsbury and Market Drayton. |
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With the parishing of the formerly unparished area of Shrewsbury in 2008, the entire ceremonial county is now parished. |
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Part of the proposals include parishing and establishing a town council for Shrewsbury. |
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The county's main transport hub is Shrewsbury, through which many significant roads and railways pass and join. |
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In addition, the Shrewsbury and Newport Canal potentially could be restored in the future. |
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Shrewsbury is becoming a centre for distribution and warehousing, as it is located on a nodal point of the regional road network. |
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A third higher education institution is planned to be created in Shrewsbury, which will be a campus of the University of Chester. |
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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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Shrewsbury Motocross Club has staged motocross events in the area for over 30 years. |
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Everton finished 7th in The Premier League and Shrewsbury Town were relegated to the Football Conference that same season. |
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In response, King George I of Greece sent a silver cup which was presented at the Shropshire Olympian Games held that year in Shrewsbury. |
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The Cambrian Line crosses the centre of Wales, with trains from Shrewsbury to Welshpool, Aberystwyth and Pwllheli. |
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To the north along the Heart of Wales Line via Llanelli, and onwards via Llandovery, Llandrindod and Craven Arms to Shrewsbury. |
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David, meanwhile, issued charters to Shrewsbury Abbey in respect to their lands in Lancashire. |
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He was brought before Edward, then taken to Shrewsbury where a special session of Parliament condemned him to death. |
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The summer meetings were abandoned, with a general meeting being called each year at Shrewsbury. |
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The earl of Shrewsbury had an elderly priest mutilated, and made the church of Llandyfrydog a kennel for his dogs. |
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Once again the Postal Distribution Center in Shrewsbury is on the chopping block. |
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Services between north and south Wales operate through the English towns of Chester and Shrewsbury along the Welsh Marches Line. |
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The Danish king had brought a large fleet to England and attacked not only York, but Exeter and Shrewsbury. |
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The English lost 2,200 men, and the commander, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, was taken prisoner. |
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By 15 or 16 August, Henry and his men had crossed the English border, making for the town of Shrewsbury. |
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The Seven consisted of Lord Shrewsbury, Lord Devonshire, Lord Danby, Lord Lumley, Henry Compton, Edward Russell, and Henry Sidney. |
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William also installed Roger de Montgomerie at Shrewsbury, and Hugh d'Avranches at Chester, creating a new expansionist earldom in each case. |
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It then flows through Shropshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, with the county towns of Shrewsbury, Worcester and Gloucester on its banks. |
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There is a statue of Sabrina in the Dingle Gardens at the Quarry, Shrewsbury, as well as a metal sculpture erected in 2013 also in the town. |
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The Rea Brook flows north from its source in the Stiperstones and joins the Severn at Shrewsbury. |
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However this stretch of the river has little traffic, other than small pleasure boats, canoes and some tour boats in Shrewsbury. |
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The Severn is often mentioned in Ellis Peters' Cadfael novels, set in or around Shrewsbury Abbey, beside the river. |
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There has been much speculation about the possibility of reopening the old Shrewsbury and Newport Canal route. |
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Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on 12 February 1809, at his family's home, The Mount. |
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From September 1818, he joined his older brother Erasmus attending the nearby Anglican Shrewsbury School as a boarder. |
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The talbot dog comes from the heraldry of the Talbot family, Marcher Lords of Shrewsbury and also from that of Viscount Hereford. |
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Salop however is also used as an alternative name for the county town, Shrewsbury, which also shares the motto of Floreat Salopia. |
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There is evidence to show that by the beginning of the 900s, Shrewsbury was home to a mint. |
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Roger de Montgomery was given the town as a gift from William, and built Shrewsbury Castle in 1074, taking the title of Earl. |
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The Shrewsbury Drapers Company dominated the trade in Welsh wool for many years. |
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It was also in this period that Edward VI gave permission for the foundation of a free school, which was later to become Shrewsbury School. |
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Shrewsbury has also played a part in Western intellectual history, by being the town where the naturalist Charles Darwin was born and brought up. |
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In 2000 and again in 2002, Shrewsbury unsuccessfully applied for city status. |
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A 2005 report on prison population found that HM Prison Shrewsbury was the most overcrowded in England and Wales. |
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In 2009 Shrewsbury Town Council was formed and the town's traditional coat of arms was returned to everyday use. |
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The climate of Shrewsbury is similar to that of the rest of Shropshire, generally moderate. |
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Shrewsbury is in the Shrewsbury and Atcham constituency and is the only large settlement in the constituency. |
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Previous MPs for Shrewsbury have included 19th century Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. |
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Instead, the Mayor of Shrewsbury and Atcham was also the mayor of the town. |
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The town council, which is the parish council, first convened on 1 April 2009, and its chair is the Mayor of Shrewsbury. |
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Unlike many other towns in this period, Shrewsbury never became a centre for heavy industry. |
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It has a production of 80 barrels a week and mainly serves the pubs in and around Shrewsbury. |
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The most affluent areas of the town are generally to the south and west, around the grounds of Shrewsbury School, and the Copthorne area. |
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Many specialist shops, traditional pubs and local restaurants can be found in the hidden corners, squares and lanes of Shrewsbury. |
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Shrewsbury Greek Orthodox Church, a former Anglican church building, is off Sutton Road to the south. |
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Shrewsbury Evangelical Church meets in the former Anglican parish church of St Julian at the Wyle Cop end of Fish Street. |
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Also a resident of the town was John Peel, a DJ and radio presenter, who was educated at Shrewsbury School. |
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Another DJ from the town is Lange, a producer of dance music, who was born in Shrewsbury. |
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Neville Cardus spent some of his formative years as assistant cricket coach at Shrewsbury School. |
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Comic book artist Charlie Adlard was born in Shrewsbury and is most known for illustrating The Walking Dead. |
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Shrewsbury has a busy spring and summer events season, which includes music, art, food and sport. |
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The Old Market Hall cinema opened in 2004 in the Tudor market hall positioned in Shrewsbury Square. |
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In early 2017, Shrewsbury BID, the Hive and GRAIN Photography Hub organised an outdoor Magnum Photos exhibition. |
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In 2009 a brand new online independent media company launched covering Shrewsbury and Shropshire. |
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Shrewsbury is well known in culinary circles for being the namesake of a classic English dessert. |
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Bury, Devizes and Shrewsbury produced large numbers to their own recipes, but it is the Shrewsbury version that became most well known. |
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Opposite it on the other side of the river is Shrewsbury High School, an independent girls' day school. |
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In 2016, The Grange and Sundorne officially merged to form Shrewsbury Academy. |
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In the future, a new building will be constructed in Shrewsbury to house Shrewsbury Academy. |
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Shrewsbury is the county's public transport hub and has road and rail links to the rest of the county and country. |
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The A49 also goes to Shrewsbury, joining the A5 at the south of the town, coming from Ludlow and Leominster. |
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The local motorsports heritage includes the Loton Park Hillclimb and Hawkstone Park Motocross Circuit near Shrewsbury. |
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Shrewsbury Cricket Club is currently one of the most successful club cricket sides in the country. |
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A service every two hours from Holyhead to Cardiff also uses the Marches line from Shrewsbury southwards. |
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During Autumn 2007, 6201 'Princess Elizabeth' visited the route on two returns and one single run from Bristol to Shrewsbury and Crewe. |
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A Class 158 DMU running northwards from Shrewsbury in the direction of Crewe. |
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Ruthin Gaol ceased to be a prison in 1916 when the prisoners and guards were transferred to Shrewsbury. |
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The building of the railway from Shrewsbury in the 1860s encouraged visitors and hotels sprang up in the town to accommodate them. |
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Ironwork was supplied by William Hazledine from his foundries at Shrewsbury and nearby Cefn Mawr. |
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The rib castings may have been made at Hazledine's original works at Coleham, near Shrewsbury. |
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Other rivalries Wrexham also have rivalries with Shrewsbury Town and Tranmere Rovers due to geographical proximity. |
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Holyhead services run every hour, to Shrewsbury via Chester and Wrexham General, then alternately to Birmingham International or Cardiff Central. |
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Cambrian Line services consist of trains from Aberystwyth to Shrewsbury, Birmingham New Street and Birmingham International every two hours. |
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The Heart of Wales Line has services from Swansea to Shrewsbury via Llanelli and Llandrindod four or five times a day. |
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Perkin Warbeck, an impostor claimant to the English throne, who claimed to be Edward's son Richard of Shrewsbury, reportedly resembled Edward. |
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FitzOsbern also created or improved fortifications in the towns of Hereford and Shrewsbury. |
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Rushgrove House, Shrewsbury House and Woodhill Court survive but have lost their spaceous gardens. |
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The same period also saw Telford involved in the design and construction of the Shrewsbury Canal. |
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Beyond Shrewsbury, and especially beyond Llangollen, the work often involved building a highway from scratch. |
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Worcester is bordered by the towns of Auburn, Grafton, Holden, Leicester, Millbury, Paxton, Shrewsbury, and West Boylston. |
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Route 9 links the city to its eastern and western suburbs, Shrewsbury and Leicester. |
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I received from the mayor an oaken box with a silver top and filled with the famous Shrewsbury cakes. |
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Why, Brother Wilfull of Salop, you may be as short as a Shrewsbury Cake, if you please. |
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Mr Rowson, originally a farmer from Shrewsbury, said the Jabiru light aircraft came as a kit. |
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They have enjoyed a wonderful life in Shrewsbury where Kev was an active member in the community. |
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Shrewsbury cut it to 26-15 on back-to-back lay-ups by Abby Joseph and Rachael Montigny respectively midway through the third period. |
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Gary, of Shrewsbury, Salop, left his wife Sue and three children Jack, 12, Laura, 10, and George, eight. |
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The Shrewsbury based Salopian Brewing Company is responsible for this traditional English bitter. |
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A STRONG team from Bowes Equestrian Centre, near Birtley, dominated the classes at the first ever Cashjumping final at Dorrington, Shrewsbury. |
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It started as an alleged attempt to shoplift baby formula from a supermarket in Shrewsbury. |
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Well, everyone in attendance at Milford High yesterday will remember Shrewsbury senior Paul Tizzano's last Turkey Day performance. |
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Beauregard predicted this past week as he and employee Everett Carlson installed a sump pump at a Shrewsbury home. |
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Crompton, who was jailed for four months at Shrewsbury Crown Court, slapped a ticket on Edward Phipps' car in Bridgnorth High Street. |
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While Philip attended Shrewsbury school, Sir Henry was occupied viceregally with Ireland. |
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Mohan Pahari of Shrewsbury said the local Nepalese community has people ready to go to Nepal's remote villages that are suffering most. |
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Shrewsbury police had a person in custody with two empty kegs and liquor bottles from the club, along with a pry bar and a hack saw. |
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Three businesses on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester have scheduled a Chef's Progressive Dinner for Wednesday. |
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St Oswald's Church was first mentioned in the 1085 Domesday book and a tithe document in Shrewsbury the same year. |
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The A5 continues from Shrewsbury to the north, passing the town, before turning west near Chirk and entering Wales. |
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The town has regular bus routes that link nearby villages and towns including Wrexham and Shrewsbury. |
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The Welsh Marches Line is a railway line from Newport in South Wales to Shrewsbury, via Abergavenny, Hereford, and Craven Arms. |
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Their daughter Gwenllian married Gilbert Talbot, progenitor of the Earls of Shrewsbury. |
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Llywelyn made an alliance with Richard, and in January 1234 the earl and Llywelyn seized Shrewsbury. |
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On 28 June, Edward issued writs to summon a parliament to meet at Shrewsbury, to discuss Dafydd's fate. |
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Dafydd, severely injured, was taken to Rhuddlan then moved under guard to Shrewsbury, where he was later executed. |
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The Shrewsbury Drapers Company in England took a dominant role in distributing Welsh cloth. |
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Over time, factors from Liverpool and Bristol took control of the trade away from the Shrewsbury drapers. |
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Since this, the drapers of Shrewsbury are obliged to go up to the country, and purchase the articles in small quantities at farms and cottages. |
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Wrexham General is on two different lines, The Shrewsbury to Chester Line and the Borderlands Line run by Arriva Trains Wales. |
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It is located on the Shrewsbury to Wrexham line between Chirk and Wrexham General. |
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Originally starting at the Cross Foxes near Dolgellau the A458 now runs only from Mallwyd to Shrewsbury. |
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Horticulture remains popular, and the Shrewsbury Flower Show is one of the largest horticultural events in England. |
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The A5 and A49 trunk roads cross near to the town, and five railway lines meet at Shrewsbury railway station. |
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Dafydd was taken to Edward on the night of his capture, then moved under heavy guard by way of Chester to Shrewsbury where in October he was hanged, drawn and quartered. |
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New dioceses were established at Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford, Peterborough, Westminster and Chester, but not, for instance, at Shrewsbury, Leicester or Waltham. |
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Further education is provided by North Shropshire College which is situated in the town at Shrewsbury Road and at the Walford Campus near Baschurch. |
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After resting in Shrewsbury, his forces went eastwards and picked up Sir Gilbert Talbot and other English allies, including deserters from Richard's forces. |
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Shrewsbury is also the origin of the most popular Simnel cake recipe. |
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Barnum, of 14 Deergrass Road, Shrewsbury, was accused of digitally penetrating a 15-year-old girl on May 5, 2006, in the basement of a friend's home in Shrewsbury. |
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The Marches Way is a long distance footpath which connects Chester in the north, via Whitchurch, Shrewsbury, Leominster and Abergavenny to Cardiff in South Wales. |
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Shrewsbury also had a large cheese market in Victorian times. |
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In 1208, Gwenwynwyn of Powys fell out with King John who summoned him to Shrewsbury in October and then arrested him and stripped him of his lands. |
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First baseman Jeff Barbale went 2 for 4 with a double and three RBIs and designated hitter Matt Vaccaro collected two hits and one RBI for Shrewsbury. |
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Dafydd was taken from here to Chester and then on to Shrewsbury. |
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Personally, I can't thank the greater-Shrewsbury community enough for its time, thoughtfulness, generosity and commitment to Paton and the children of Shrewsbury. |
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Mr Sanders' father, Russell Sanders-Royle, said his son was living in lodgings in Allness Close, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, at the time of his death. |
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There are also some albeit very infrequent services between Rugby and Glasgow Central, the North West of England, Shrewsbury Chester, and Holyhead. |
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The Shrewsbury Drapers Company tightly controlled the trade. |
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Shrewsbury has a Park and Ride bus scheme in operation and three car parks on the edge of town are used by many who want to travel into the town centre. |
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By the end of the century the market in Shrewsbury had almost ceased, and in March 1803 the Company gave up the great room in which the trading had been conducted. |
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On 26 January 1569, Mary was moved to Tutbury Castle and placed in the custody of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his formidable wife Bess of Hardwick. |
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To help his business interests and to service his trade tokens, Wilkinson bought into partnerships with banks in Birmingham, Bilston, Bradley, Brymbo and Shrewsbury. |
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In 2008 Shrewsbury was awarded Cycling Town status by Cycling England. |
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Shrewsbury is home to a professional football club, Shrewsbury Town. |
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National Express Coaches operate through the town on route 418, offering journeys to Wrexham and to London via Shrewsbury, Telford and Birmingham. |
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Later, King Henry VIII caused the shrine and saintly relics to be destroyed, but some have been recovered to be housed at Shrewsbury and Holywell. |
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More recently these have been joined by rowing students of Harper Adams University, University Centre Shrewsbury and some crews from other local schools. |
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Shrewsbury Sports Village is a sports centre in the Sundorne district of the town, aimed at providing a wide range of sports facilities for townspeople. |
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The conquest of Gwynedd was complete with the capture in June 1283 of Dafydd, who was taken to Shrewsbury and executed as a traitor the following autumn. |
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A seated statue of Darwin, unveiled 1897, stands in front of Shrewsbury Library, the building that used to house Shrewsbury School, which Darwin attended as a boy. |
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England International player James Taylor currently plays for Shrewsbury. |
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A free weekly parkrun takes place in the centre of Shrewsbury. |
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Ithon Ace, with Stephen Williams from Shrewsbury, was the best in the first heat of the Grade A, and Double Top, with Debbie Hitchcock from Haverfordwest, took the second. |
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Additionally, local stopping services operate between Crewe and Shrewsbury and services via the Heart of Wales line use the Marches line between Shrewsbury and Craven Arms. |
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Shrewsbury in the Industrial Revolution was also on the Shrewsbury Canal, which linked it with the Shropshire Canal and the rest of the canal network of Great Britain. |
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Despite this, Shrewsbury escaped much of the industrialisation taking place in 19th century Britain due to its isolation from other large manufacturing towns and ports. |
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The worst case in Shrewsbury was in 1940, a woman and her two grandchildren were killed when a cottage was destroyed on Ellesmere Road, the only local air raid deaths. |
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By 1086 the Norman Earl Roger de Montgomery of Shrewsbury had built a castle at the Severn ford of Rhydwhiman, named Montgomery Castle after his home in Normandy. |
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The town has two large expanding business parks, Shrewsbury Business Park by the A5 in the southeast and Battlefield Enterprise Park in the north. |
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All these difficulties were increased by the conduct of Shrewsbury. |
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Steam train approaching Harlescott Crossing near Shrewsbury. |
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The Cambridge Rules were written at Trinity College, Cambridge, at a meeting attended by representatives from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury schools. |
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After visiting Shrewsbury he joined his Wedgwood relatives at Maer Hall, Staffordshire, but found them too eager for tales of his travels to give him much rest. |
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In Shrewsbury, boat trips around the loop of the town centre are at present provided by the Sabrina and depart from Victoria Quay near the Welsh Bridge during the summer. |
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The Cambrian Line provides mainline railway services between Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury, where passengers can join services for London and elsewhere. |
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Philip was educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford. |
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For the interim period before the first elections, the existing county councillors who represented electoral divisions covering Shrewsbury were the town councillors. |
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Shrewsbury is Shropshire's second largest town, after Telford. |
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The population figures below are for the borough of Shrewsbury and Atcham, which existed only between 1974 and 2009, and covered a much wider area than the town. |
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Throughout the Medieval period, Shrewsbury was a centre for the wool trade, and used its position on the River Severn to transport goods across England via the canal system. |
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During this period, monasteries and convents, such as those at Shaftesbury and Shrewsbury, were prominent features of society providing lodging, hospitals and education. |
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Eton, Harrow, Shrewsbury and Rugby are four of the better known. |
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With one simple tweet, Adam Towner brought the Stanley Cup to Shrewsbury. |
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It flows through Shrewsbury and enters the River Severn there. |
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The Quantum Leap is an abstract sculpture unveiled in the town centre in 2009 to mark the bicentenary on the birth of Shrewsbury biologist Charles Darwin. |
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There are other historic industrial sites in the county, such as at Shrewsbury, Broseley, Snailbeach and Highley, as well as the Shropshire Union Canal. |
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One half of Britain's Got Talent impressionist double act The Mimic Men Cal Halbert lives in Newcastle after relocating from his hometown of Shrewsbury. |
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There have been a number of notable Salopians, and people otherwise associated with the town of Shrewsbury, including Charles Darwin, the biologist and evolutionary theorist. |
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Darwin, who is one of the most important thinkers of the 19th century, who was born in Shrewsbury on 12 February 1809 at the Mount House, and was at Shrewsbury School. |
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Former auditor Andy Sutton won his case for constructive dismissal against Flintshire council last year following a high profile tribunal in Shrewsbury. |
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The first such building was at Ditherington in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. |
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Michael Palin, the writer, actor and comedian attended Shrewsbury School. |
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Other actors with associations with the town include Nick Hancock, presenter of They Think It's All Over, who, like Palin, was educated at Shrewsbury School. |
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She was a member of the Thirteenth District President's Club, past president of the Shrewsbury Woman's Club and she belonged to the Crewel Sewing group. |
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Percy Thrower, the gardener and broadcaster lived in Shrewsbury, where he set up the garden centre near Meole Brace and just down the road from the football club. |
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Shrewsbury Park, Plumstead Common, Woolwich Common and Oxleas Wood are situated higher up the hill and are all part of the South East London Green Chain. |
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Actor Adam Rayner was born in Shrewsbury and grew up in the United States. |
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Thomas Telford's Holyhead road followed Watling Street from London but was exceptional in creating a largely new route beyond Shrewsbury, and especially beyond Llangollen. |
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The capital of Powys, Pengwern, at or near modern Shrewsbury, was conquered by Oswiu of Northumbria in 656 when he had become overlord of the Mercians. |
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Darwin was educated at Shrewsbury School and later, with the development of his 1859 work On the Origin of Species became the preeminent naturalist of the 19th century. |
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In the same century, Shrewsbury became famous for its poets. |
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In film, Shrewsbury was used as the setting for the popular 1984 film, A Christmas Carol, which filmed many of its interior and exterior shots in and around the town. |
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Between London and Shrewsbury, most of the work amounted to improvements. |
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