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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 (Market Drayton → Shropshire → Shropshire → West Midlands → England → United Kingdom) Camera location 52° 54′ 12.7″ N, 2° 29′ 04″ W
Market Drayton (Market Drayton → Shropshire → Shropshire → West Midlands → England → United Kingdom) Camera location 52° 54′ 37.4″ N, 2° 28′ 29″ W
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.
Norton in Hales is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It lies on the A53 between the town of Market Drayton and Woore, Shropshire's most northeasterly village and parish. Staffordshire is to the east of the parish and Cheshire to the west. Also within the parish is the village of Betton and hamlet of Ridgwardine.
Longford is 1.5 miles west of Market Drayton and 1 mile southeast of Moreton Say. A topographical guide to Shropshire published in 2005 describes Longford as a "charming hamlet on a rise in undulating country." [1] The village name is believed to come from a great road that existed in Roman times and was simply known as the Longford.
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 ...
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.