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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 Wenlock Olympian Games, a nine-day event staged on eight sites across Shropshire, are still held annually during July, and are still organised by WOS. Much Wenlock's secondary school is named William Brookes School after Dr Brookes. [21] The London 2012 Summer Olympics mascot was named Wenlock [22] to honour Brookes, WOS and Much Wenlock ...
The 2025 Shropshire Council election will be held on Thursday 1 May 2025 to elect all 74 councillors to Shropshire Council in England. [2] It will take place on the same day as other council elections in the United Kingdom. Shropshire Council is currently held by the Conservatives, who won the previous Council election in 2021.
In the episode, the Antiques Roadshow came to Shropshire, where he examined an apparent Ming vase which Boycie had found in his house, but disproved Boycie's claims that it was a Ming vase by revealing that the word "Ming" on the bottom of the vase was actually the word "Birmingham" partially covered by dried mud, meaning that it had been made ...
In the game, the player works for the titular Home Safety Hotline, providing callers with correct information on how to deal with ordinary and supernatural household hazards. The game was created by independent developer Nick Lives, who was inspired by the bestiaries from Dungeons and Dragons and the mythology of legendary creatures .
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 ...
As part of the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, Onny Meadows has been turned into a tourist and education site to help promote the Shropshire Hills, and countryside. [8] [2] The name for the meadows was taken from the River Onny which flows along the 11 acres meadow site boundary. The meadow includes planted wildflowers, hedgerows, and trees ...
Shropshire have also competed in the Women's Twenty20 Cup, from 2009 to 2010 and from 2014 onwards. Their most successful season was in 2015 , when they topped Division 4C and then gained promotion to Division 3 in a play-off group, winning a crucial game against Leicestershire by just three runs.