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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 .
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.
Market Drayton Town F.C. P. Pell Wall Hall; S. St Mary's Church, Market Drayton This page was last edited on 18 November 2018, at 10:50 (UTC). Text is available ...
The civil parishes of Shropshire. This is a list of civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. There are 230 civil parishes. Population figures are unavailable for some of the smallest parishes. Civil Parish Civil Parish Population 2011 Area (km 2) 2011 Pre 1974 District District Abdon and Heath 181 22.82 Ludlow Rural District Shropshire Acton Burnell 544 6.70 Atcham Rural ...
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 ).
Pell Wall Hall. Pell Wall Hall is a neo-classical country house on the outskirts of Market Drayton in Shropshire.Faced in Grinshill sandstone, Pell Wall is the last completed domestic house designed by Sir John Soane and was constructed 1822–1828 [1] for local iron merchant Purney Sillitoe at a total cost of £20,976.
The Domesday Book of 1086 mentions "a Priest in Drayton", and there was likely a wooden Anglo-Saxon church on the same site prior to the construction of the present Norman stone building, which dates to 1150. [2] In 1201 Pope Innocent III forbade the weekly market which had traditionally taken place in the churchyard after the Sunday morning ...
The Market Drayton Electric Light and Power Company Limited was registered on 4 February 1902. [1] Its legal powers were derived from an Electric Lighting Order dated 1903. The company's offices were in Cheshire Street, Market Drayton and the power station was in Great Hales Street, Market Drayton (52°54'10.1"N 2°28'51.6"W).