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.

Trivia

Oswestry Football Club play in the Welsh League.

Related Topics:
Oswestry Football Club - Welsh League

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Shropshire holds the record for the coldest temperature recorded in England and Wales (weather wise). This was set on January 10, 1982, in Edgmond at -26.1 C. The following day the coldest daytime maximum temperature recorded in England occurred in the county, at -11.3 C.

Related Topics:
England - Wales - 1982 - Edgmond

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Shrewsbury has the tallest town crier in the world, at 7ft 2in, and now also the tallest MP in the United Kingdom - Daniel Kawczynski is 6ft 8.5in tall.

Related Topics:
Town crier - MP - Daniel Kawczynski

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The ceremonial county of Shropshire is the United Kingdom's largest inland (surrounded entirely by land) county.

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There are 701 public houses in the county. See the Category:Pubs in Shropshire.

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The 1985 television programme Blott on the Landscape was filmed mainly in South Shropshire, notably in Ludlow. The recently begun sitcome The Green Green Grass is set in Shropshire and is filmed near Bridgnorth.

Related Topics:
Blott on the Landscape - The Green Green Grass - Bridgnorth

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