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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 railway station served the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, England, between 1863 and 1963.It was at the junction where three railway lines met: two of them, forming the Great Western Railway route between Wellington and Crewe, were met by a line from Stoke-on-Trent on the North Staffordshire Railway.
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 ...
Market Drayton railway station; 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 ...
The line was doubled during 1866–67, to match the Wellington and Drayton Railway which opened in October 1867, thus providing a link for the GWR between the Midlands and the Northwest. The North Staffordshire Railway line from Stoke to Market Drayton opened in January 1870, joining the line at Silverdale Junction, just north of Market Drayton.
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.
Market Drayton's first Methodists held their meetings in private houses in 1799, in places then called Tinkers Lane and Ranters Gullet.A visiting Archdeacon of Salop at that time wrote "there are many church-going Methodists here, probably some hundreds".