Much Wenlock

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.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wenlock Priory and Much Wenlock Museum.

Wenlock Priory

Photo: Speedbird2064, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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

Photo: Roger Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church of Holy Trinity

Church

Photo: Richard Law, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Harley and Barrow.

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.

Barrow

Hamlet

Photo: John M, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Barrow is a hamlet and civil parish in Shropshire, England, some 5 miles south of Telford between Ironbridge and Much Wenlock. Although Barrow itself consists of a church and just a few dwellings, the parish extends from Broseley to the eastern edge of Much Wenlock; it also includes the hamlets of Willey and Benthall, and the lost settlement of Caughley. Barrow is situated 3 miles east of Much Wenlock.

Much Wenlock

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

52.5843° or 52° 35′ 4″ north

Longitude

-2.573° or 2° 34′ 23″ west

Elevation

791 feet (241 metres)

Open location code

9C4VHCMG+PQ

GeoNames ID

7301084

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