Harley

Harley is a locality in Shropshire, West Midlands, England. Harley is situated nearby to the hamlet Wigwig, as well as near the locality Stretton Westwood.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wenlock Priory and Much Wenlock Museum.

Wenlock Priory

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Wenlock Priory, or St Milburga's Priory, is a ruined 12th-century monastery, located in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, at grid reference SJ625001. Roger de Montgomery re-founded the Priory as a Cluniac house between 1079 and 1082, on the site of an earlier 7th-century monastery.

Much Wenlock Museum

Museum

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Church of St Mary, Harley

Church

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Much Wenlock and Cressage.

Much Wenlock

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Much Wenlock is a rustic 700-year-old medieval market town in Shropshire. Much Wenlock is filled with a patchwork of twisting streets, black and white half-timbered buildings, limestone cottages, speciality shops, numerous hostelries and watering holes and the remains of a magnificent 12th-century priory.

Cressage

Village

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Cressage is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is located 4 miles north-west of the nearest town Much Wenlock and 8 miles south-east of Shrewsbury. Cressage is situated 2 miles north of Harley.

Harley

Village

Photo: Roger Kidd, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Harley is a village and civil parish in the English county of Shropshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 163.

Harley

Type: Locality
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.5998° or 52° 35′ 59″ north

Longitude

-2.5982° or 2° 35′ 53″ west

Elevation

312 feet (95 metres)

Open location code

9C4VHCX2+WP

GeoNames ID

7301074

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