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Dr William Penny Brookes, founder of the Wenlock Olympian Games. The Wenlock Olympian Games, dating from 1850, are a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games.They are organised by the Wenlock Olympian Society (WOS), and are held each year at venues across Shropshire, England, centred on the market town of Much Wenlock.
The Shropshire Senior Cup is a county cup football competition that is open for professional and non-professional senior football teams in the English county of Shropshire. The competition is one of the oldest cup competitions in the world, and notably, the original winning trophy is still presented to the winners, some 130 years after the Cup ...
The Wrekin is a constituency [n 1] in the House of Commons of the British Parliament, located in the county of Shropshire in the West Midlands of England. It has existed continuously since its creation by the Representation of the People Act 1918, and is named after a prominent landmark hill in the area, The Wrekin.
William Penny Brookes. William Penny Brookes was born in Much Wenlock, where his father, William Brookes, was a local doctor.He was apprenticed to his father on 12 August 1824, studied at St Thomas' Hospital, London from September 1829 to May 1830, then studied in the hospitals of Paris, until the end of August 1830.
This Commonwealth Games results index is a list of links which forms an index which can be used to quickly find the required Wikipedia page containing the results of ...
Telford and Wrekin Council is the local authority for the unitary authority of Telford and Wrekin in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. Until 1 April 1998 it was a non-metropolitan district. Since the last boundary changes in 2023, 54 councillors have been elected from 32 wards. [1]
Troopers in the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment assembled in the Parade Square at Hyde Park Barracks to take part in an annual event to find the best turned out soldier and horse.
Map of Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire, showing the results by party in the general election of 2010. Date: 7 May 2010 (original upload date) Source: No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims). Author: No machine-readable author provided. Wereon assumed (based on copyright claims).