Shifnal
Shifnal is a small market town in Shropshire. Some writers have claimed that Shifnal was the inspiration for Market Blandings, a town that appears in several of P.G.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,010 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Shropshire, England
- Also known as: “Shifnal, Shropshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shifnal railway station and Church of St Andrew.
Shifnal railway station
Railway station
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shifnal railway station is a railway station which serves the town of Shifnal in Shropshire, England. The station is managed by West Midlands Trains, who provide the majority of services that call here.
Haughton Hall
Hotel
Photo: Stephen Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haughton Hall is an early 18th-century country house situated at Haughton Lane, Shifnal, Shropshire, England now converted for use as a hotel. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Telford and Ryton.
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.
Ryton
Village
Photo: Richard Law, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ryton is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, in the district of Bridgnorth. It lies about one mile north north west of Beckbury. The civil parish originates during Norman times, and appears as "Ruitone" in the Domesday Book of 1086. Ryton is situated 3 miles south of Shifnal.
Oakengates
Town
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Oakengates is a historic market town and civil parish in the borough of Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England. The town's parish population was recorded as 8,517 in the 2001 census. Oakengates is situated 4 miles northwest of Shifnal.
Shifnal
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.6676° or 52° 40′ 3″ northLongitude
-2.373° or 2° 22′ 23″ westPopulation
7,010Elevation
299 feet (91 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB IFNOpen location code
9C4VMJ9G+2ROpenStreetMap ID
node 52860357OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Shifnal” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Shifnal”
- Basque: “Shifnal”
- Bengali: “শিফনাল”
- Cebuano: “Shifnal”
- Chinese: “Shifnal”
- Chinese: “希夫纳尔”
- Chinese: “詩夫納爾”
- Chinese: “诗夫纳尔”
- Dutch: “Shifnal”
- French: “Shifnal”
- German: “Shifnal”
- Gujarati: “શિફનાલ”
- Irish: “Shifnal”
- Italian: “Shifnal”
- Japanese: “シフナル”
- Kannada: “ಶಿಫ್ನಾಲ್”
- Korean: “시프날”
- Ladin: “Shifnal”
- Latin: “Idessala”
- Lithuanian: “Šifnalas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shifnal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shifnal”
- Persian: “شیفنال”
- Polish: “Shifnal”
- Portuguese: “Shifnal”
- Russian: “Шифнал”
- South Azerbaijani: “شیفنال”
- Spanish: “Shifnal”
- Swedish: “Shifnal”
- Tamil: “ஷிப்பினால்”
- Telugu: “షిఫ్నల్”
- Turkish: “Shifnal”
- Urdu: “شیفنال”
- Welsh: “Shifnal”
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