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Much Wenlock

Much Wenlock is a rustic 700-year-old medieval market town in . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 2,210 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Shropshire, England
  • Also known as: “Much Wenlock, Shropshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Much Wenlock Museum and Church of St Mary, Harley.

Museum
Photo: Roger Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church
Photo: Roger Kidd, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church
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St Giles' Church is in the hamlet of , , England. It is an active Anglican in the deanery of Telford Severn Gorge, the archdeaconry of Ludlow, and the diocese of Hereford. is situated 2 miles east of Much Wenlock.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ironbridge and Broseley.

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is a riverside village in the borough of , , England. Located on the bank of the , at the heart of the Gorge, it lies in the civil parish of The Gorge.

Town
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is a market town in , England, with a population of 4,929 at the 2011 Census and an estimate of 5,022 in 2019. The flows to its north and east. is situated 3½ miles east of Much Wenlock.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet and civil parish in , England, some 5 miles south of between Ironbridge and Much Wenlock. Although itself consists of a church and just a few dwellings, the parish extends from to the eastern edge of Much Wenlock; it also includes the hamlets of and , and the lost settlement of Caughley. is situated 2 miles east of Much Wenlock.

Much Wenlock

Latitude
52.5956° or 52° 35′ 44″ north
Longitude
-2.5578° or 2° 33′ 28″ west
Population
2,210
Elevation
515 feet (157 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB MWK
Open location code
9C4VHCWR+6V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1669235794
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2642054
Wiki­data ID
Q201114
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Much Wenlock” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Much Wenlock”
  • Basque: “Much Wenlock”
  • Catalan: “Much Wenlock”
  • Cebuano: “Much Wenlock”
  • Chinese: “Much Wenlock”
  • Chinese: “大溫洛克”
  • Chinese: “温洛克”
  • Chinese: “溫洛克”
  • Danish: “Much Wenlock”
  • Dutch: “Much Wenlock”
  • Esperanto: “Much Wenlock”
  • French: “Much Wenlock”
  • German: “Much Wenlock”
  • Hebrew: “מאץ‘ ונלוק”
  • Indonesian: “Much Wenlock”
  • Irish: “Much Wenlock”
  • Italian: “Much Wenlock”
  • Japanese: “マッチ・ウェンロック”
  • Korean: “머치웬록”
  • Ladin: “Much Wenlock”
  • Latin: “Wenloke Magna”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Much Wenlock”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Much Wenlock”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Much Wenlock”
  • Norwegian: “Much Wenlock”
  • Persian: “ماچ ونلاک”
  • Polish: “Much Wenlock”
  • Portuguese: “Much Wenlock”
  • Romanian: “Much Wenlock”
  • Russian: “Мач-Уэнлок”
  • Silesian: “Much Wenlock”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماچ ونلاک”
  • Spanish: “Much Wenlock”
  • Swedish: “Much Wenlock”
  • Turkish: “Much Wenlock”
  • Volapük: “Much Wenlock”
  • Welsh: “Gweunllwg”
  • Welsh: “Much Wenlock”

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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 “Much Wenlock”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.