Shropshire

Shropshire (abbreviated Salop or Shrops) is a traditional, ceremonial and administrative county in the West Midlands region of England. The ceremonial county borders Cheshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and the Welsh ceremonial counties of Powys and Clwyd.

Famous People

• Robert Clive "Clive of India"
• Lords and Ladies Craven (of Stokesay Castle)
• Abraham Darby
• Charles Darwin
• William Farr
• George Jeffreys of Wem, (infamous judge)
• Len Murray, (former head of the T.U.C)
• Wilfred Owen
• Edmund Plowden (1518-1585)—legal scholar and theorist
• Sir Edmund Plowden (1590-1659)—Proprietor, Earl Palatine and Governor of New Albion
• Barbara Pym
• Morris Telfod Author of "A Salopian Odyssey", philosopher, traveller and bingo enthusiast.
• T'Pau, pop group
• Sir Philip Sidney
• Mary Webb (1881-1927), authoress
• Matthew Webb, (first man to swim the English Channel)
• Billy Wright
• Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America

Also, British poet A.E. Housman used Shropshire as the setting for many of the poems in his first book, A Shropshire Lad.

Related Topics:
A.E. Housman - A Shropshire Lad

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