Little Wenlock
Little Wenlock is a village and civil parish in the Telford and Wrekin borough in Shropshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 605.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David Lally, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 492 residents
- Description: village in Shropshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Little Wenlock, Shropshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Wrekin and Darby Houses.
The Wrekin
Peak
Photo: Chrisbayley, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Wrekin is a hill in east Shropshire, England. It is located some five miles west of Telford, on the border between the unitary authorities of Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin.
Darby Houses
Museum
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Darby Houses museum is one of ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums administered by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. It is based in the town of Coalbrookdale in the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire, England within a World Heritage Site, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
Museum
Photo: Helen Simonsson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron is one of ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums administered by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. The museum is based in the town of Coalbrookdale in the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire, England, within a World Heritage Site, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ironbridge and Wellington.
Ironbridge
Ironbridge is a riverside village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England. Located on the bank of the River Severn, at the heart of the Ironbridge Gorge, it lies in the civil parish of The Gorge.
Wellington
Photo: Nabokov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wellington is a market town within Telford, Shropshire. It contains perhaps the largest commercial space outside of Telford's town centre. It is the part of Telford furthest west, both by motorway and by rail.
Telford
Telford is a new town in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is administratively located in the West Midlands region, and is now by far the largest town in Shropshire, being the residence for 155,000 people.
Little Wenlock
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Telford and Wrekin, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.6591° or 52° 39′ 33″ northLongitude
-2.5227° or 2° 31′ 22″ westPopulation
492Elevation
781 feet (238 metres)Open location code
9C4VMF5G+JWOpenStreetMap ID
node 356735224OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7292763Wikidata ID
Q3877312
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Satellite Map
Discover Little Wenlock from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Little Wenlock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Little Wenlock”
- Dutch: “Little Wenlock”
- French: “Little Wenlock”
- Irish: “Little Wenlock”
- Japanese: “リトル・ウェンロック”
- Ladin: “Little Wenlock”
- Latin: “Parva Welok”
- Polish: “Little Wenlock”
- Swedish: “Little Wenlock”
- Turkish: “Little Wenlock”
- Welsh: “Little Wenlock”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Lawrence and Little Wenlock Village Hall.
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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 “Little Wenlock”. Photo: David Lally, CC BY-SA 2.0.