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Shrewsbury

United Kingdom / England / Shrewsbury /
 town, county town - UK/Ireland
Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, in the West Midlands of England. Lying on the River Severn, it is home to 70,560 (retrieved on 2007-09-18) inhabitants, and is the primary settlement of the borough of Shrewsbury and Atcham, which has a population of 95,850 (retrieved on 2007-09-25). Its Welsh name is Amwythig.

Shrewsbury is a historic market town with the town centre having a largely unaltered medieval street plan. The town features over 660 historic listed buildings, including several timber framed examples from the 15th and 16th centuries. Shrewsbury Castle, a red sandstone fortification, and Shrewsbury Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery, were founded in 1074 and 1083 respectively, by the Norman Earl of Shrewsbury, Roger de Montgomery. The town hosts one of the oldest and largest horticultural events in the country, Shrewsbury Flower Show, and is well known for its floral displays, having won various awards in recent years, including Britain in Bloom in 2006.

Today, lying 9 miles east of the Welsh border, Shrewsbury serves as a commercial and cultural centre for the ceremonial county and a large area of mid-Wales. There are some light industry and distribution centres, such as Battlefield Enterprise Park, located mainly on the outskirts. The A5 and A49 trunk roads cross here, as do a number of railway lines at Shrewsbury railway station.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrewsbury
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Coordinates:   52°42'51"N   2°45'34"W

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