Villages & towns in ShropshireShropshire, England

Two-tier town split by the Severn, its High Town and Low Town linked by a cliff railway and a leaning castle keep.

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Riverside village strung along the Severn beneath the world's first iron bridge, heart of a World Heritage gorge.

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Hilltop market town of timber-framed and Georgian streets below a Norman castle, long feted as the food capital of the Marches.

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Sleepy Marches town on the River Clun with a ruined castle and a five-arched packhorse bridge, one of Housman's quietest places under the sun.

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Ancient market town with a ruined priory and the Wenlock Olympian Games that helped inspire the modern Olympics.

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Victorian resort town tucked under the Long Mynd, a walkers' base once billed as 'Little Switzerland'.

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Timber-framed market town on the Shropshire Union Canal, home of gingerbread and Joule's Brewery.

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Remote hamlet by the Welsh border where the Vyrnwy meets the Severn, famous for its all-timber medieval church.

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Border market town of Welsh and English blood, with a medieval centre and a great Iron Age hillfort on its edge.

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Small Clee-country town on the Wyre Forest edge, known for the twisted timber spire of its parish church.

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Estate village of black-and-white cottages beside Hodnet Hall, its great terraced gardens laid around a Victorian mansion.

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Picture-book hamlet under the Long Mynd, best known for its thatched black-and-white timber church.

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Trim sandstone village below a wooded hill of old quarries, its warm stone raising many a Shrewsbury building.

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Old coaching town of Georgian and timber-framed streets east of Telford, said to feature in Dickens's writing.

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