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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 .
In 2000–01 Little Drayton won the Premier Cup again and went on to retain it the following season. [2] In 2003 the club was renamed Market Drayton Town, [ 3 ] the name of a former club that had won the Shropshire County League in 1955–56.
Shropshire County Cricket Club was established on 28 June 1956. It has since played minor counties cricket from 1957 and played List A cricket from 1974 to 2005, using a different number of home grounds during that time.
"ADDERLEY, (or Atherley), a parish in the hundred of North Bradford, in the county of Salop, 4 miles to the N.W. of Market Drayton. It is situated on the Grand Junction canal and the river Weaver. It comprises the townships of the Morrey and Spoonley. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lichfield value £665, in the patronage of Richard ...
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 ...
"SUTTON, a township in Drayton-in-Hales parish, Salop; 1 mile SSW of Market-Drayton. Pop[ulation]., 177" [ 5 ] It is unusual in that a small area of the parish, at Ternhill , is almost an exclave of the parish: only a 5m wide strip of land joins it with the bulk of the parish.
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 ).
Royal Air Force Tern Hill, or more simply RAF Tern Hill, (ICAO: EGOE) was a Royal Air Force station at Ternhill in Shropshire, England, near the towns of Newport and Market Drayton. The station closed in 1976, with the technical and administrative site transferring to the British Army to become Borneo Barracks, later renamed Clive Barracks ...