Wenlock First Appearances

Wenlock may refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

* Little Wenlock, a village in Shropshire
* Much Wenlock, a town in Shropshire
** (Much) Wenlock (UK Parliament constituency)
** Wenlock Priory, a 7th/12th-century monastery
* Wenlock Basin, a canal basin in London
* Wenlock Edge, a limestone escarpment near Much Wenlock

Elsewhere

* Wenlock, Queensland, Australia
* Wenlock, Essex County, Vermont, USA
* Wenlock River, Queensland, Australia

People

* Baron Wenlock, a title created three times in the Peerage of England and of the United Kingdom
** John Wenlock, 1st Baron Wenlock
** Robert Lawley, 1st Baron Wenlock (1768–1834)
** Paul Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock (1784–1842)
** Beilby Lawley, 2nd Baron Wenlock (1818–1880)
** Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock (1849–1912)
** Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock (1860–1932)
* Milburga of Wenlock (died 715), Benedictine abbess of Wenlock Abbey

Geology

* Wenlock epoch, the second series of the Silurian
* Wenlock Group or Wenlockian, the middle series of strata in the Silurian (Upper Silurian) of Great Britain
** Wenlock Series lagerstätte, preserved in the limestone Wenlock Series of Herefordshire, England, offers paleontologists a rare snapshot of a moment in time, about 420 Mya.
* Wenlock Limestone, a stratigraphic unit in the United Kingdom
* Wenlock Shale, a stratigraphic unit in the United Kingdom

Other

* Wenlock, Craven Arms and Lightmoor Extension railway, a former railway in Shropshire, England
* Much Wenlock and Severn Junction railway, a former railway in Shropshire, England
* The Wenlock Arms, a public house in London
* Wenlock Olympian Society Annual Games, a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games dating from 1850, held each year in Much Wenlock
* Wenlock and Mandeville, the official mascots for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics being held in London, United Kingdom

See also

* ''On Wenlock Edge'' (song cycle), of 1909 by Ralph Vaughan Williams, to texts by A. E. Housman

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