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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.
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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.
Shropshire (/ ˈ ʃ r ɒ p ʃ ər,-ʃ ɪər /; abbreviated Salop [4]) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England, on the border with Wales.It is bordered by Cheshire to the north-east, Staffordshire to the east, Worcestershire to the south-east, Herefordshire to the south, and the Welsh principal areas of Powys and Wrexham to the west and north-west respectively.
Shropshire Council elections are held every four years, and since 2009 74 councillors have been elected from 63 electoral divisions. [ 1 ] Shropshire Council is the unitary authority for the district of Shropshire , within the larger ceremonial county of Shropshire , England.
The 2021 Shropshire Council election took place on 6 May 2021 as part of the 2021 United Kingdom local elections. All 74 councillors were elected from 63 electoral divisions which return either one, two or three councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office.
The county's legal name remained Salop, although two of the districts included 'Shropshire' in their names. [10] Logo used until 2009. The council changed the county's legal name from Salop to Shropshire with effect from 1 April 1980, after which the council was called Shropshire County Council. [11] [12]
(January 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The name is not derived from "oak" or "gates" but is derived from the Ancient Brythonic name for the valley which was Usc-con, meaning The Lake ( Usc (water)) and the confluence ( Cond ) of two streams (see Cartlidge), and from the Old Norse gata , path; see gh- in Indo-European roots ...