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Sentence Examples Ambulance workers in the West Midlands and Shropshire are set to ballot for strikes over the implementation of a new pay deal. Inliers of Avalonian strata crop out in the west of the English Midlands in Shropshire. As is customary at the start of a new hunting season, Ferry and the South Shropshire hunt, where he is joint master, were in pursuit of fox cubs. I was brought up in Shropshire, so I know all about fox hunting and saw them setting off, all excited, ready for the kill. Clun in Shropshire isn't too far away and if the weather holds then it should be a good day out. Based in Shropshire, and almost entirely self-taught, he is the only craftsman in the UK making figurative scagliola. The family's younger son blithely tools around rural Shropshire in his natty two-seater. The Small Eggar moth is another rarity found only in this part of Shropshire. The series is currently filming on location in Shropshire and at Teddington Studios. Although he was canon and prebendary of Llandaff from 1295, and from 1299 archdeacon of Shropshire, he was only a moderate pluralist. The Wrekin is an important and well known small hill in Shropshire with the remains of an Iron Age hill fort at its summit. There are also wetlands and mires, many now dried up, especially in north Shropshire and southern Cheshire. Tenbury Wells is a small ancient market town situated in the very north west of Worcestershire on the A456, close to the borders of Herefordshire and Shropshire. Mr Ferry began his hunting career as a whipper-in with Yorkshire's Middleton Hunt, before becoming the country's youngest master of a hunt, in Shropshire. The Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covers about a quarter of the county, mainly in the south. The North Shropshire Plain is an extension of the flat and fertile Cheshire Plain. South Shropshire is more rural, with fewer settlements and no large towns, and its landscape differs greatly from that of North Shropshire. Shropshire has the highest educational attainment in the West Midlands region. Shropshire has a huge range of different types of rocks, stretching from the Precambrian until the Holocene. Shropshire has a number of areas with Silurian and Ordivician rocks, where a number of shells, corals and trilobites can be found. Show More Sentences Shropshire has no cities, but 22 towns, of which two can be considered major. Shropshire is connected to the rest of the United Kingdom via a number of road and rail links. Some Shropshire children attend schools in Wales, including Llanfyllin High School. In May 2012 the Mercian Regional Football League was created, replacing the Shropshire County Premier Football League and Telford Combination. There is one notable horse racing racecourse in Shropshire, near Ludlow, the Ludlow Racecourse. Coleridge accepted this, to the disappointment of Hazlitt who hoped to have him as a neighbour in Shropshire. The Ironbridge Gorge is a deep gorge, containing the River Severn in Shropshire, England. Brookes was born, lived, worked and died in the small market town of Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England. In that same year, Brookes instigated the setting up of the annual Shropshire Olympian Games. In response, King George I of Greece sent a silver cup which was presented at the Shropshire Olympian Games held that year in Shrewsbury. In 1850 an Olympian Class was started by William Penny Brookes at Much Wenlock, in Shropshire, England. The mascot of the Summer Olympics in London was named Wenlock after the town of Much Wenlock in Shropshire. From White Ladies, Richard Penderel led Charles in an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Severn near Madeley, Shropshire. Other upland and hilly areas in the north and Midlands are the Cheviot Hills, the North York Moors, and the Shropshire Hills. The English counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire lie to the east. Ironbridge is a village on the River Severn, at the heart of the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire, England. Welsh was spoken by natives of parts of western Shropshire until the middle of the twentieth century if not later. Harrogate, Shropshire and the south coast of Kent are making similar restrictions. At county level, the least deprived areas, in descending order, were Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Solihull, Staffordshire, and Shropshire. Premier Foods make Bird's Custard, Angel Delight and Marvel powdered milk in Knighton, west of Eccleshall near the Shropshire boundary. Show More Sentences At GCSE, the best performing area in 2010 was Solihull, closely followed by Warwickshire and Shropshire. School children in Shropshire and Solihull are most likely to attend university, followed by Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. Cornwall, Durham, Northumberland, Shropshire and Wiltshire became unitary authorities providing all services. Shropshire is moving towards breaking even, we are still working with Solihull. It then flows through Shropshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, with the county towns of Shrewsbury, Worcester and Gloucester on its banks. Edgmond is a village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. In addition to his original factory at Bilston a new plant was established near Wellington, Shropshire, which was devoted to wheel production. Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on 12 February 1809, at his family's home, The Mount. Shropshire Council was created in 2009, a unitary authority taking over from the previous county council and five district councils. Later, those two canal branches became part of the Shropshire Union Canal network. The climate of Shrewsbury is similar to that of the rest of Shropshire, generally moderate. Shropshire Council have their headquarters at the Shirehall, on Abbey Foregate. In 2009 a brand new online independent media company launched covering Shrewsbury and Shropshire. Arriva also operate county services both independent of and on behalf of Shropshire County Council. In 1846, the canal and the aqueduct became part of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company. The breed in the valleys had been improved, principally by sheep from Shropshire. The Shropshire Union Canal joins the Mersey at Ellesmere Port and the Dee at Chester. Webb was born at Dawley, Telford, in Shropshire, one of twelve children of a Coalbrookdale doctor. Webb House of the Adams' Grammar School in Newport, Shropshire, is named after Webb. The stage names of the Lower Devonian and of the Upper Devonian are all derived from localities in Shropshire or Breconshire. Show More Sentences Ironbridge has an annually recurring problem of flooding from the River Severn, as do many other parts of Shropshire. He was married to Sarah, daughter and heiress of George Talbot of Rudge, Shropshire. In 1709, at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England, Abraham Darby began to fuel a blast furnace with coke instead of charcoal. Ketley is a suburb of the new town of Telford in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. The Iron Bridge is a bridge that crosses the River Severn in Shropshire, England. Tolls for pedestrians were collected until 1950, when ownership of the bridge was transferred to Shropshire County Council. At Ellesmere Port the canal is joined by the Shropshire Union Canal, at a site now occupied by the National Waterways Museum. In 1787, through his wealthy patron William Pulteney, he became Surveyor of Public Works in Shropshire. As the Shropshire county surveyor, Telford was also responsible for bridges. When a new town was being built in the Wrekin area of Shropshire in 1968, it was named Telford in his honour. There are a few outcrops in Shropshire such as Titterstone Clee Hill and at Little Wenlock. The plain is the surface expression of the Cheshire Basin, a deep sedimentary basin that extends north into Lancashire and south into Shropshire. A small area of Millstone Grit Group rocks stretches through Flintshire and Wrexham into the northwest corner of Shropshire near Oswestry. There is an isolated introduced population on Dartmoor, and overspill Welsh birds visit the Shropshire Hills such as Long Mynd, where they breed. In 1989 a jungle cat that had been hit by a car was found on the roadside in Shropshire. In 2004 footage was recorded of what appears to be a large black cat near a farm in Shropshire. He believes it could be the descendant of the Shropshire jungle cat from the 1980s, or a gigantic domesticated cat. Or he might have been inspired by Fulk Fitz Warine of Shropshire, or a Robin from Sussex, or another in Lancashire. West Midlands Ambulance Service said a man was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident near Wem, Shropshire, yesterday. He had joined the Redemptorists at 16, training at Hawkstone Park, Shropshire. Show More Sentences The door was opened again for McCabe when Aubretia completed the double for the Shropshire Wolves under Twiston-Davies. Bede similarly moved Shropshire and Cheshire to Northumbria, which Saxon territory did not exist at the time of the actions in those territories. Andy is joined by bassist Lee Smith and drummer Slurpy who have known each other since high school in Bridgnorth, Shropshire. The father-of-one, from Newport, in Shropshire, travelled for seven days to reach the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Paul Masterman, from Shropshire County Council, said dental and chiropody services in the home were just some of the services being affected. Shropshire is to gain a new unitary council covering the whole county, Local Government Minister John Healey revealed. At La Becasse, 17 Corve Street, Ludlow, Shropshire, SY8 1DA Chef Will Holland's surprise menu and tasting wine for two guests. Wyevale Garden Centres announced it has agreed to acquire Moreton Park Garden Centre from Shropshire Leisure Group. The cadets, based in Canley, were spending the weekend at the Nesscliff training area in Shropshire participating in fieldcraft training. In 1943 Larkin was appointed librarian of the public library in Wellington, Shropshire. The Normans did create new earls like those of Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Cheshire but they were associated with only a single shire at most. Western Herefordshire continued to speak Welsh until the late nineteenth century, and isolated pockets of Shropshire speak Welsh today. The boundary passes between Flintshire, Powys and Monmouthshire in Wales and Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire in England. Wales would extend as far as the rivers Severn and Mersey, including most of Cheshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire. A final key figure was Rev Charles Cardale Babington, who came from Ludlow in Shropshire. All of these camps are in the county of Shropshire but there was another significant settlement at the Breiddin hillfort in Powys. Borderlines Film Festival takes place across thirty venues in Shropshire and Herefordshire. Parts are located within the Wye Valley and Shropshire Hills Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Beyond this point the river forms the boundary between Wrexham County Borough in Wales and Shropshire in the West Midlands of England. However, his successors sought to expand Mercia further westwards into what is now Cheshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire. Show More Sentences In early 1223, Llywelyn crossed the border into Shropshire and captured Kinnerley and Whittington castles. Llywelyn's allies in south Wales were given back lands taken from them by the Marshalls and Llywelyn himself gave up his conquests in Shropshire. In East Shropshire he also developed iron works at Snedshill, Hollinswood, Hadley and Hampton Loade. After company mergers, the canal became part of the Shropshire Union System. Until recently it was properly called the Llangollen Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal, though it is now known as the Llangollen Canal. Although part of Flintshire, Overton was within an exclave, surrounded by Cheshire, Shropshire and Denbighshire. The city village of Newtown, located north east of the city and bounded by the Shropshire Union Canal was at the very heart of this industry. The Heart of Wales Line links Llanelli with Craven Arms in Shropshire. To prove his ideas, he built a stationary engine at the Coalbrookdale Company's works in Shropshire in 1802, forcing water to a measured height to measure the work done. However, some lower hills such as Seatallan and Watch Hill on the edges of Lakeland and the Long Mynd in Shropshire do qualify because of their isolation from higher hills. Coalbrookdale is a village in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England, containing a settlement of great significance in the history of iron ore smelting. Several new furnaces built in Shropshire in the 1750s were powered in a similar way, including Horsehay and Ketley Furnaces and Madeley Wood or Bedlam Furnaces. On Thursday 10 July 2003 The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh made a visit to Shropshire which included a visit to Ironbridge, and a walk over the bridge itself. Mr Sanders' father, Russell Sanders-Royle, said his son was living in lodgings in Allness Close, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, at the time of his death. The county has one American football team, Shropshire Revolution, which was founded in 2006, and is a club in the British American Football League. The economy of Shropshire was traditionally dominated by agriculture. It is the home of the Shropshire libraries' Welsh Collection. The first such building was at Ditherington in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Further education is provided by North Shropshire College which is situated in the town at Shrewsbury Road and at the Walford Campus near Baschurch. Horsehay is a village on the western outskirts of Dawley, which, along with several other towns and villages, now forms part of the new town of Telford in Shropshire, England. Show More Sentences The new furnace ushered in a period of great activity when the East Shropshire Coalfield, for a time, became the area of greatest production of iron then known. In Shropshire the Hampton Loade Ferry operates across the river. Queen consort Anne Boleyn descended directly from Gruffydd II ap Madog, Lord of Dinas Bran through his daughter, Angharad who married William Le Boteler of Wem, Shropshire. The Shropshire landowner Eadric the Wild, in alliance with the Welsh rulers of Gwynedd and Powys, raised a revolt in western Mercia, fighting Norman forces based in Hereford. Major roads in the county include the M54 motorway, which connects Shropshire to the rest of the motorway network, and more specifically to the West Midlands county. From 1755 John Wilkinson became a partner in the Bersham concern and in 1757 with partners, he erected a blast furnace at Willey, near Broseley in Shropshire. Ladies champion on actual time is Christine Roberts of North Shropshire Wheelers, while last finisher Mike Armstrong retained the Lanterne Rouge trophy. The couple took the frog, which turned out to be a South American leaf frog, to a specialist shop, Shropshire Exotics, at Salters Court in Newport. Around 2,000 farmers in the West Midlands and Yorkshire are likely to be affected by the proposals to shut the beet sugar sites at Allscott, Shropshire, and York. This bridge across the River Teme was the joint responsibility of both Worcestershire and Shropshire and the bridge has a bend where the two counties meet. Gilly Grateley, aged 34, and Jayne Turrell, aged 31, both from Albrighton, established Able Recruitment Services, after working for a national agency in Shropshire. This gives Shropshire the 13th tallest hill per county in England. 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. The new town of Telford is built partly on a former industrial area centred on the East Shropshire Coalfield as well as on former agricultural land. Pengwern, which covered Staffordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, was largely destroyed in 656 AD with only its westernmost parts in modern Wales enduring. The custom waxed and waned over the years, but has seen revivals in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, South Yorkshire, Cheshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Kent. There are other historic industrial sites in the county, such as at Shrewsbury, Broseley, Snailbeach and Highley, as well as the Shropshire Union Canal. The A488 begins just west of the town centre in Frankwell and heads out to Bishop's Castle, Clun and Knighton crossing the border in the southwest of Shropshire. Rosemary Janet Mair McGrath was born in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. A further quarrel with his brother Owain led to Cadwaladr being driven into exile in England, where King Henry II later gave him lands at Hess in Shropshire. Show More Sentences The region also encompasses five Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Wye Valley, Shropshire hills, Cannock Chase, Malvern Hills, and parts of the Cotswolds. The region is geographically diverse, from the urban central areas of the conurbation to the rural western counties of Shropshire and Herefordshire which border Wales. The 2nd Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry advanced on foot to within a few kilometres of Caen, but had to withdraw due to lack of armour support. The Principality's administration was overseen by the Prince of Wales's Council comprising between 8 and 15 councillors sitting in London or, later, Ludlow in Shropshire. The young man, believed to be aged 17 and a student at the Maelor School Penley, near Wrexham, was a passenger in a car which smashed into a cottage near Wem, Shropshire. Mainwaring was born in Ightfield, Shropshire, second son of Sir George Mainwaring and his wife Ann, the daughter of Sir William More of Loseley Park in Surrey. In 2009 unitary authorities were created to replace each of the county councils of Cornwall, County Durham, Northumberland, Shropshire and Wiltshire. Examples from Classical Literature The like do they in Shropshire with the like, which hath been felled in old time, within seven miles of Salop. Have you actually brought two starving people from London to Shropshire, Helen? It could not have been there when the young novice from Shropshire came to Saint-Evroul. Her daughter, quite a well-brought-up girl, too, has actually become engaged to be married to a curate in Shropshire. In Shropshire the seams are no more than eighteen or twenty inches. To a kind clergyman in Shropshire who thought he might help me. A former robotics manager is putting away his soldering iron to deliver meals on wheels to Shropshire residents. Patrick Cosgrove of the Marches and Shropshire Campaign for Better Broadband in Rural Areas said, A new broom is exactly what BDUK needs. Gridley,' the Lord Chancellor told me last week, 'not to waste your time here, and to stay, usefully employed, down in Shropshire. Michael Condon, from Shropshire, has been offered a job by the West Midlands Deanery as a junior doctor in an NHS trust. After first ebullition, our Man from Shropshire quietens down. Langland was born in the country, perhaps in Oxfordshire, perhaps in Shropshire, and he went to school at Great Malvern. Two new ambulances are to be based in Shropshire following a campaign by Paul Passant to save lives. The expedition to Shropshire crippled the Basts permanently. The Shropshire tale of the Fairy Cow is much the same as the preceding. He makes less fuss about it than I do about going to Shropshire. Owen spent his boyhood in the Shropshire village of which his father had been rector, and thither he went when his holiday came round, to the farm of one Dorman. It touches the question of dimidiation or impalement in the coat of mine uncle, Sir John Leighton of Shropshire, who took unto wife the widow of Sir Henry Oglander of Nunwell. Meanwhile his Rugby colleague Tom Cleaton was a splendid third at 12 and under level, four shots down on winner James Ford of Shropshire and Herefordshire. Instead he was thinking of a girl with eyes as soft as a dove's, lips like a thread of scarlet and small white teeth as even as a flock of his own Shropshire sheep. Show More Sentences Eckford lived nearby in Wem, Shropshire and the Eckford Sweet Pea Society continues to grow and preserve a range of Eckford varieties that can be purchased as seeds. Instead, for the first episode in this new series, he's heading to the Shropshire town of Ludlow on the Welsh border to investigate urbanised Britain. His new piece Ben Somewhen will have its premiere on Friday alongside his Clarinet Quintet, which is then being taken on a tour of rural Shropshire at the weekend. Find more words! 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