Shawbury

Shawbury

Shawbury

Human settlement in England

Shawbury is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England.[1] The village is 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Shrewsbury and 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Telford.

Quick Facts Population, OS grid reference ...

The village straddles the A53 between Shrewsbury and Market Drayton.[2] The nearest railway station is at Yorton on the Welsh Marches Line for Shrewsbury/Crewe. The 2011 census recorded a population of 2,872 for the entire civil parish of Shawbury.[3]

History

Shawbury has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1085.[4] In the great book Shawbury is recorded by the name Sawesberie. The main landholder was Gerard from Earl Roger of Shrewsbury. The survey also mentions that there is a church and a mill.

Geography

The River Roden flows through the village. The village of Moreton Corbet, with its castle, is just to the north. The main weather station for Shropshire is located in the village at the RAF base.[5] In December 1981, a temperature of -25.2 °C was recorded, one of the coldest on record for England.[6]

More information Month, Jan ...

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward covers much of the surrounding area with a total ward population as taken at the 2011 Census of 4,666.[10]

Landmarks

There has been a church on this site since at least the 12th century, although the present church is not from that date. Many air force personnel from RAF Shawbury, an air station founded in 1917, are buried in the churchyard, which contains 32 Commonwealth War Graves, 3 from World War I and 29 from World War II, besides 7 Polish Air Force personnel from the latter war.[11]

The village is home to RAF Shawbury, a helicopter airfield for the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom and home of the tri-services Defence Helicopter Flying School.

Notable people

Bus service

Shawbury is served by the 64 route, operated by Arriva Midlands North, which runs between Shrewsbury and Market Drayton.

Sport

Shawbury's football club is Shawbury United F.C.

See also

Notes

  1. RAF Shawbury is located approximately 7 miles (11 km) NE of Shrewsbury, and 12 miles (19 km) NW of Telford.

References

  1. [1]
    OS Explorer Map 241, Shrewsbury, Wem, Shawbury & Baschurch. ISBN 978-0-319-46276-8
  2. [2]
    Shrewsbury & Telford Street Atlas, ISBN 978-1-84348-389-2
  3. [3]
    Neighbourhood Statistics Census 2011 - Shawbury CP
  4. [4]
    The Domesday Book, Englands Heritage, Then and Now, Editor: Thomas Hinde, Shropshire, Shawbury, page 230, ISBN 1-85833-440-3
  5. [5]
    Observations Archived 2012-02-10 at the Wayback Machine
  6. [6]
    "Top ten coldest recorded temperatures in the UK". 16 October 2012.
  7. [7]
    "Shawbury 1991–2020 averages". Met Office. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  8. [8]
    "Indices Data – Shawbury STAID 1633". KNMI. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  9. [9]
    "Monthly weather forecast and Climate – Shawbury, United Kingdom". Weather Atlas. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  10. [10]
    "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  11. [11]
    CWGC Cemetery Report. Breakdown of figures obtained from count of casualty list accompanying. Date accessed 14 August 2012.
  12. [12]
    "Charles, Thomas" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 05 (11th ed.). 1911.
  13. [13]
    "A Famous General's Death – Sir R.H.K.Butler, of Shawbury". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 26 April 1935. p. 7. Both the Dictionary of National Biography and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography are erroneous in stating he died in Shrewsbury.
  • Media related to Shawbury at Wikimedia Commons
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Shawbury, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.