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Shropshire Council, known between 1980 and 2009 as Shropshire County Council and from 1889 to 1980 as Salop County Council, is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Shropshire in the West Midlands of England. Since 2009 it has been a unitary authority, having taken over district-level functions when the county's districts were ...
Shropshire (/ ˈ ʃ r ɒ p ʃ ər,-ʃ ɪər /; historically Salop and abbreviated Shrops) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England, on the Welsh border.It is bordered by Wrexham County Borough and Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, Worcestershire to the south-east, Herefordshire to the south and Powys to the west.
shropshire .gov .uk. Shropshire is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, [2] in the West Midlands region of England. It was created on 1 April 2009 from the former districts of Bridgnorth, North Shropshire, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Atcham and South Shropshire. [3] The district is governed by Shropshire Council.
The origin of the name "Shropshire" is the Old English "Scrobbesbyrigscīr" (literally Shrewsburyshire ), perhaps taking its name from Richard Scrob (or FitzScrob or Scrope ), the builder of Richard's Castle near what is now the town of Ludlow. However, the Normans who ruled England after 1066 found both "Scrobbesbyrig" and "Scrobbesbyrigscir ...
The ceremonial county of Shropshire, England (which comprises the local/unitary authorities of Shropshire Council and Telford and Wrekin ), is divided into 5 parliamentary constituencies – 1 borough constituency and 4 county constituencies. As with all constituencies for the House of Commons in the modern age, each constituency elects one ...
This is a list of towns and villages in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. This list includes those places in Telford and Wrekin . Those with town status are shown in bold.
Shrewsbury Town Council is the town council of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, established in April 2009 as part of structural changes to local government in England that abolished Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council and created in its place the unitary Shropshire Council. [1] Shrewsbury was previously unparished, with the Mayor of Shrewsbury and ...
The 2013 elections to Shropshire Council were held on 2 May 2013 as part of the 2013 United Kingdom local elections. These were the second elections to the unitary authority created as part of local government restructuring in Shropshire, following on from the previous elections in 2009. [1] All 74 seats in the 63 electoral divisions ...