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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 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 ...
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Almington is about 2 miles (3.2 km) east-northeast of Market Drayton by road, and west of the village of Loggerheads. It lies to the northwest of the villages of Hales and west of Blore Heath. Pinfold Lane leads out of the village and connects Almington to the A53 road (Newcastle Road). The River Tern flows to the west of the village. [8]
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 (Market Drayton → Shropshire → Shropshire → West Midlands → England → United Kingdom) Camera location 52° 54′ 37.4″ N, 2° 28′ 29″ W
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 ).