Shelve
Shelve is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Worthen with Shelve in Shropshire district of Shropshire, England. It is to the west of the Stiperstones ridge and east of Stapeley Hill, at an altitude of about 342 metres, and is some 2 miles from the England–Wales border to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Poyser, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village and former civil parish in Shropshire, England
- Also known as: “Shelve, Shropshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hoarstones and Stapeley Hill.
Hoarstones
Archaeological site
Photo: Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Hoarstones, or Hoar Stone Circle, is a stone circle in the civil parish of Chirbury with Brompton in the English county of Shropshire. The Hoarstones are part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages, over a period between 3300 and 900 BCE.
Stapeley Hill
Peak
Stapeley Hill is a sacred saddleback shaped hill in south-west Shropshire, near the village of Priestweston, not far from another landmark, Corndon Hill.
Stiperstones
Peak
Photo: Martyn B, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Stiperstones is a distinctive hill in Shropshire, England. The quartzite rock of the ridge formed some 480 million years ago. During the last Ice Age Stiperstones lay on the eastern margin of the Welsh ice sheet. Stiperstones is situated 2 miles east of Shelve.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include The Bog and Bentlawnt.
The Bog
Locality
The Bog is a former mining community in Shropshire, England. It lies 6 miles north of Bishops Castle, east of the A488, at grid reference SO355979. It was once a busy village with over 200 buildings.
White Grit
Hamlet
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
White Grit is a small, scattered village beneath Corndon Hill in Powys, Wales, directly on the border with Shropshire. The nearby village of Priest Weston, despite being in England, actually lies to the west of White Grit. White Grit is situated 1½ miles southwest of Shelve.
Shelve
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Worthen with Shelve, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.58451° or 52° 35′ 4″ northLongitude
-2.98043° or 2° 58′ 50″ westElevation
1,132 feet (345 metres)Open location code
9C4VH2M9+RROpenStreetMap ID
node 29731729OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Irish to Swedish—“Shelve” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Shelve”
- Ladin: “Shelve”
- Latin: “Selva”
- Polish: “Shelve”
- Swedish: “Shelve”
- “Shelve”
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Highlights include All Saints Church and Shelve Hill.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shelve”. Photo: John Poyser, CC BY-SA 2.0.