Ellesmere
Ellesmere is a small market town in Shropshire, England, near the Welsh border. It is notable for its proximity to a number of prominent meres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,690 residents
- Description: town in Shropshire, England
- Also known as: “Ellesmere, Shropshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Mary’s Church, Ellesmere and Lakelands Academy.
St Mary’s Church, Ellesmere
Church
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St Mary's Church stands on a hill in the town of Ellesmere, Shropshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ellesmere, the archdeaconry of Salop, and the diocese of Lichfield.
Lakelands Academy
School
Lakelands Academy is a coeducational secondary school located in Ellesmere in the English county of Shropshire. Previously a community school administered by Shropshire Council, The Lakelands School converted to academy status in December 2012.
St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Welshampton
Church
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The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed Anglican church in the village of Welshampton in Shropshire. It was built in the 1860s for Frances Mainwaring and Salusbury Kynaston Mainwaring, in memory of Charles Kynaston Mainwaring of Oteley. St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Welshampton is situated 2 miles east of Ellesmere.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Welshampton and Penley.
Welshampton
Village
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Welshampton is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Welshampton and Lyneal, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. Welshampton is situated 2 miles east of Ellesmere.
Penley
Village
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Penley is a village in the County Borough of Wrexham, in Wales close to the border with Shropshire, England, and had a population of 606 as of the 2011 census. Penley is situated 3 miles north of Ellesmere.
Dudleston Heath
Village
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Dudleston Heath is a village in north-west Shropshire, England. It is located on the B5068 road between Ellesmere and St Martin's and is part of Ellesmere Rural civil parish. The Wales-England border is just to the north. Dudleston Heath is situated 2½ miles northwest of Ellesmere.
Ellesmere
- Categories: market town and locality
- Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.9074° or 52° 54′ 27″ northLongitude
-2.8939° or 2° 53′ 38″ westPopulation
3,690Elevation
308 feet (94 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ELMOpen location code
9C4VW444+XFOpenStreetMap ID
node 246545762OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Ellesmere” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ellesmere”
- Basque: “Ellesmere (Shropshire)”
- Basque: “Ellesmere”
- Bengali: “এলেসমেয়ার নগরী”
- Cebuano: “Ellesmere”
- Chinese: “埃爾斯米爾”
- Chinese: “艾斯米尔”
- Chinese: “艾斯米爾”
- Dutch: “Ellesmere”
- French: “Ellesmere”
- German: “Ellesmere”
- Gujarati: “એલેસમેર”
- Hungarian: “Ellesmere”
- Irish: “Ellesmere, Shropshire”
- Irish: “Ellesmere”
- Italian: “Ellesmere (Shropshire)”
- Italian: “Ellesmere”
- Japanese: “エレスミア・アーバン”
- Kannada: “ಎಲ್ಲೆಸ್ಮೆರೆ”
- Korean: “엘즈미어 어번”
- Ladin: “Ellesmere”
- Latin: “Ellesmera”
- Lithuanian: “Elesmerė Urbanas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ellesmere”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ellesmere i Shropshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ellesmere”
- Norwegian: “Ellesmere”
- Persian: “الزمیر، شروپشر”
- Persian: “السمیر، شراپشر”
- Polish: “Ellesmere (Shropshire)”
- Polish: “Ellesmere”
- Portuguese: “Ellesmere”
- Romanian: “Ellesmere, shropshire”
- Romanian: “Ellesmere, Shropshire”
- Russian: “Эллесмер”
- South Azerbaijani: “الزمیر، شروپشر”
- Spanish: “Ellesmere”
- Swedish: “Ellesmere”
- Tamil: “எல்லேஸ்மெரி”
- Telugu: “ఎల్లేస్మేర్”
- Turkish: “Ellesmere”
- Urdu: “یلیسمیری”
- Volapük: “Ellesmere”
- Welsh: “Ellesmere, Swydd Amwythig”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Ellesmere”. Photo: Andy and Hilary, CC BY-SA 2.0.