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Market Drayton is a market town and civil parish on the banks of the River Tern in Shropshire, England. It is close to the Cheshire and Staffordshire borders. It is located between the towns of Whitchurch , Wem , Nantwich , Newcastle-under-Lyme , Newport and the city of Stoke on Trent .
The club was established in 1969 as Little Drayton Rangers. [1] They became members of the Shropshire County League and were champions in 1991–92, also winning the Shropshire Premier Cup. [ 2 ] In 1998 they joined Division One North of the West Midlands (Regional) League .
Market Drayton is a town and a civil parish in Shropshire, England.It contains 80 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England.Of these, four are at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
The school formed from Market Drayton Grammar School. From 1968 [3] [4] to 1973 the headteacher was Arthur Behenna. He sacked the 42 year old head of drama, Raymond Gregory, from his £2,200 job, for not teaching the expected syllabus, as the drama teacher wanted a more 'modern' syllabus, with 'free expression'; 200 children subsequently went on a banner-waving protest throughout the town, to ...
The line was doubled during 1866–67, to match the Wellington and Drayton Railway which opened in October 1867, thus providing a link for the GWR between the Midlands and the Northwest. The North Staffordshire Railway line from Stoke to Market Drayton opened in January 1870, joining the line at Silverdale Junction, just north of Market Drayton.
The line ran from Drayton Junction (52.7031°N 2.5317°W), on the Shrewsbury and Wellington Joint Line just west of Wellington station, to an end-on junction with the Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway at Market Drayton (52.9093°N 2.4895°W), a distance of some 16 miles. Construction started in 1864, and the line was opened in 1867.
Longford is a small village near the town of Market Drayton, Shropshire, England.It is just off the A53, near to Ternhill and lies in the parish of Moreton Say.. Longford is 1.5 miles west of Market Drayton and 1 mile southeast of Moreton Say.
Drayton or Market Drayton was a rural district in Shropshire, England from 1894 to It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 under the name 'Drayton', from that part of the Market Drayton rural sanitary district which was in Shropshire (the rest forming Blore Heath Rural District in Staffordshire ).