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2021 Shropshire Council Election
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. Summary Election result , - Though the Conservatives maintained their majority on the council, there was a major shock result that saw the incumbent Conservative leader of the council, Peter Nutting, lose his seat to a Liberal Democrat challenger. He was replaced as leader of the council by Conservative Lezley Picton at the AGM held later that month. Council composition Following the last election in 2017, the composition of the council was: After the election, the composition of the council was: - Independent - Green Party - Health Concern Ward results Abbey Albrighton Alveley and Claverley Bagley Battlefield Bayston Hill, Col ...
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2017 Shropshire Council Election
The 2017 Shropshire Council election took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom. 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. Results Summary , - , , Federalist Party of the United Kingdom , align="right", , align="right", , align="right", , align="right", , align="right", , align="right", 0.08 , align="right", 79 , align="right", , - All wards are single seat unless otherwise stated The results below are sourced from the Shropshire Council website. Abbey Albrighton Alveley and Claverley Bagley Battlefield Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton Belle Vue Bishop's Castle Bowbrook Bridgnorth East and Astley Abbotts Bridgnorth West and Tasley Broseley ...
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Belle Vue, Shropshire
Belle Vue is a suburb of the town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It is located about a mile south of the town centre. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 4,550. History and development Built up during the 19th and early 20th Centuries, it is now mainly residential. "Belle Vue Road" (the A5191, formerly the A49) runs through the middle of the area, which has many public houses such as The Grove, the Belle Vue Tavern, the Masonic Arms and the Boar's Head. It also has a selection of small shops, though many have become houses in recent decades. Also in the suburb, off the Belle Vue Road, is the Prince of Wales public house, which has its own bowling green. Streets branching off the Belle Vue Road include Greyfriars Road, Trinity Street, Havelock Road, South Hermitage and Belle Vue Gardens. Oakley Manor, now private housing, was one of the locations of Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council from the 1970s to the early 2000s, before the council moved to a purpose-built G ...
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Worthen
Worthen is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Worthen with Shelve, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is approximately 13 miles west of Shrewsbury. It sits in the Rea Brook valley. To the south are the Stiperstones and the Bromlow Callow, known for the small clump of trees on top. To the north is Long Mountain. On 1 April 1987 the parishes of Worthen and Shelve were abolished to form the parish of Worthen with Shelve. The parish includes the hamlets and villages of Brockton, Little Worthen, Pennerley, and Snailbeach, in addition to its namesakes and several smaller settlements. It has an area of , and in the 2011 United Kingdom census the population of the parish was 2,078 in 877 household spaces. Worthen contains the grade I listed Church of England parish church, All Saints, a functioning Methodist Chapel, a primary school (now called Long Mountain School) with Eco-School status, a village hall built i ...
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Chirbury
Chirbury () is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Chirbury with Brompton, in the Shropshire district, in west Shropshire, England. It is situated in the Vale of Montgomery, close to the Wales–England border ( at its nearest), which is to its north, west and south. The A490 and B4386 routes cross at Chirbury. It is the largest settlement in the Chirbury with Brompton civil parish, which according to the 2001 census had a population of 914, with the resident population of Chirbury at 348. The population of the civil parish had increased to 971 at the 2011 census. History The placename was recorded in 915 as ''Ċyriċbyrig'' in the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'', and as ''Ċireberie'' in the Domesday Book of 1086, and means "the fort with a church". Its Welsh name, ''Llanffynhonwen'', means "the church of the white well" or "...of the holy well". Some French linguists have theorised that the name of Chirbury shares a common etymology with the city of Cherbo ...
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Cheswardine
Cheswardine ( ) is a rural village and civil parish in north east Shropshire, England. The village lies close to the border with Staffordshire and is about 8 miles north of Newport and 5 miles south east of Market Drayton. At the 2001 census, the parish (which also includes the villages of Chipnall and Soudley as well as several small hamlets such as Goldstone and Ellerton), had a population of 991 people, increasing to 1,076 at the 2011 Census. History and architecture The name ''Cheswardine'', recorded in 1086 as ''Ciseworde'', in 1189 as ''Chesewordin'' and about 1650 as ''Cheswardyne'', is probably derived from the Old English for "cheese-producing settlement".Gelling and Foxall, ''The place-names of Shropshire, Volume 1'', EPNS, 1990, p.78 Cheswardine was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, when the manor was held by Robert of Stafford, but is probably a much older settlement, with the church likely being built on an ancient fortified site.Raven, M. ''A Guide to ...
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Ditherington
Ditherington is a suburb of the town of Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire, England. It is the fourth most deprived ward in the Shropshire unitary authority area. There has been much regeneration work in the southern part of Ditherington, which is close to Shrewsbury town centre. Various residential developments have occurred, but little has been finished. Ditherington was the location of the Arriva Midlands (former Midland Red) Shrewsbury bus depot until 2012, when it was replaced by a newly built one in Harlescott. The Ditherington depot was then demolished and acquired by the nearby Flax Mill, but as of July 2024 is still undeveloped. Ditherington Flax Mill The Flax Mill (also locally known as the "Maltings") is the oldest iron-framed building in the world and is seen as the "grandfather of skyscrapers". It was designed by Charles Bage and built in 1797 for John Marshall of Leeds and his partners. It is a Grade I listed building. After decades of being derel ...
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Acton Burnell
Acton Burnell () is a village and parish in the English county of Shropshire. Home to Concord College, it is also famous for an early meeting of Parliament where the Statute of Acton Burnell was passed in 1283. The population at the 2011 census was 544. The village today has a post office and Anglican parish church, as well as a Roman Catholic cemetery. History Running to the north-west of the village is a Roman road, that ran between the modern day settlements of Wroxeter and Leintwardine. The etymology of Acton Burnell is Old English ''āc'' (oak) and ''tūn'' (farm, estate), joined with the family name Burnell (thus meaning the part of Acton held by the Burnell family). It was the birthplace of Robert Burnell, a thirteenth century prelate, politician and regent under Edward I. For 20 years, as guests of Sir Edward Smythe a former pupil, the monks of Douai, following expulsion from France in the French Revolution, lived in community at Acton Burnell until they moved ...
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Brown Clee Hill
Brown Clee Hill is the highest hill in the rural England, English county of Shropshire, at above sea level. It is one of the Clee Hills, and is in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Geography Brown Clee Hill lies five miles north of its sister and neighbour, Titterstone Clee Hill. The highest peak of the hill is Abdon Burf, at high with its shorter summit of Clee Burf being . Much more of Brown Clee Hill is private land than on Titterstone Clee, and large areas are covered with coniferous plantations. The eastern expanse of the hill is in possession of the Burwarton Estate under ownership of Viscount Boyne, whilst the western fringes of the hill are owned by various private land owners and the parish of Clee St. Margaret. The common land features the remains of where an Iron Age hill fort once stood Brown Clee Hill#History, ''(See Below)''. Nearby towns are Ludlow, Cleobury Mortimer, Church Stretton, Broseley, Bridgnorth and Much Wenlock. Several ai ...
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Broseley
Broseley () is a market town in Shropshire, England, with a population of 4,929 at the 2011 Census and an estimate of 5,022 in 2019. The River Severn flows to its north and east. The first iron bridge in the world was built in 1779 across the Severn, linking Broseley with Coalbrookdale and Madeley. This contributed to the early industrial development in the Ironbridge Gorge, which is now part of a World Heritage Site. History There was a settlement existing in 1086, listed as Bosle in the Domesday Book of that year, when it lay in the Hundred of Alnodestreu. That jurisdiction was dismembered in the time of King Henry I, when Broseley and Willey were reassigned to the Munslow Hundred. Finally they were transferred to the Liberty of Wenlock on its creation in the time of King Richard I. The place name appears as ''Burewardeslega'' in 1177, and in similar variants thereafter, indicating that it had anciently been Burgheard's (or Burgweard's) clearing, or grove. In Broseley ...
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Julia Buckley
Julia Buckley is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury since 2024. Early political career Buckley worked in the European Parliament for 5 years as a policy advisor, and went on to work as an EU funding specialist in regional and local government including at Wolverhampton City Council. In the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, she was a candidate placed third on the West Midlands party list. She was elected as Councillor for the Bridgnorth West and Tasley Division in Shropshire Council in the 2021 United Kingdom local elections, having previously contested Bridgnorth East and Astley Abbotts in 2017. She was also elected as Councillor for the Bridgnorth Town East Ward in Bridgnorth Town Council in 2017. She became leader of the Shropshire Labour Group in 2022, in opposition on the Shropshire Council. She is affiliated to the Unison trade union. Parliamentary career Buckley was inspired by her friend Jo C ...
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Tasley, Shropshire
Tasley is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England.Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 map It is located to the immediate west of the town of Bridgnorth, and the A458 road The A458 is a route on the UK highway network that runs from Mallwyd, near Machynlleth, in Wales, merging with the A456 Hagley Road and the Quinton Expressway on the outskirts of Birmingham, in England. On the way it passes through Welshpool ... passes through. As well as the small historic village and farms, the parish includes some modern suburban housing and livestock market/auction hall that form part of the built-up area of Bridgnorth. The village is located on a hill, with an elevation of , and has a church building dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, built 1840–1. See also * Listed buildings in Tasley References External links Tasley Parish Council Villages in Shropshire Civil parishes in Shropshire {{Shropshire-geo-stub ...
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Astley Abbotts
Astley Abbotts is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, located immediately north of Bridgnorth, and straddling the B4373 Bridgnorth to Broseley road. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 396. The Church inside the village is known as St Calixtus' church, named after Saint Calixtus. The church is a stone building and has both Norman and Anglo Saxon roots. The church was originally constructed in 1138 and was later consecrated on 14 October 1138, by the Bishop of Hereford. Since then, the majority of the church has been rebuilt. However, the Church of England in Bridgnorth comment that there are still parts of the older church that still exist today. Inside the Church can be found the faded remains of a 'maiden's garland', a heart-shaped wooden frame decorated with gloves, cloth and ribbons. Such garlands were once the fashion to commemorate maidens who died before marriage. The one at Astley Abbotts has a ribbon-like piece of paper saying, in ...
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