Shropshire
Shropshire is England's largest inland county, covering an area of 1,347 square miles. It is a beautiful pastoral county with a landscape that has inspired visitors for centuries, a number of historic and prosperous market towns, and hundreds of sleepy, traditional villages.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Shrewsbury and Telford.
Oswestry
Oswestry is a market town and historic railway town in Shropshire, close to the Welsh border.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Ludlow and Bridgnorth.
Bridgnorth
Bridgnorth is a historic market market town on the banks of the River Severn in Shropshire, England.
Much Wenlock
Much Wenlock is a rustic 700-year-old medieval market town in Shropshire.
Newport
Market Drayton
Photo: Kev inr, Public domain.
Ironbridge
Ironbridge is a riverside village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England.
Shropshire
- Region with 490,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 338 feet (103 metres)
- Description: ceremonial county in the United Kingdom
- Also known as“Ceremonial County Shropshire”“Salop”
- Neighbors
- Category: ceremonial county of England
- Location
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Latitude of center
52.6433° or 52° 38′ 36″ north
Longitude of center
-2.7137° or 2° 42′ 49″ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Shropshire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Shropshire”
- Arabic: “شروبشاير”
- Armenian: “Շրոպշիր”
- Armenian: “Շրոփշիր”
- Asturian: “Shropshire”
- Balinese: “Shropshire”
- Basque: “Shropshire”
- Belarusian: “графства Шропшыр”
- Belarusian: “Шропшыр, графства”
- Belarusian: “Шропшыр”
- Bengali: “শ্রপশার”
- Breton: “Shropshire”
- Bulgarian: “Шропшър”
- Catalan: “Shropshire”
- Cebuano: “Shropshire”
- Chinese: “什罗普郡”
- Chinese: “什羅普郡”
- Cornish: “Shropshire”
- Czech: “Shropshire”
- Danish: “Shropshire”
- Dutch: “Shropshire”
- Esperanto: “Shropshire”
- Estonian: “Shropshire”
- Finnish: “Shropshire”
- French: “Shropshire”
- Galician: “Salop”
- Galician: “Shropshire”
- German: “Shropshire”
- Greek: “Σρόπσαϊρ”
- Gujarati: “શ્રોપશાયર”
- Hebrew: “שרופשייר”
- Hindi: “श्रॉपशायर”
- Hungarian: “Shropshire”
- Icelandic: “Shropshire”
- Ido: “Shropshire”
- Indonesian: “Shropshire”
- Interlingua: “Shropshire”
- Irish: “Shropshire”
- Italian: “Shropshire”
- Japanese: “シュロップシャー”
- Kannada: “ಶ್ರೊಪ್ಶೈರ್”
- Korean: “슈롭셔주”
- Kurdish: “Shropshire”
- Ladin: “Shropshire”
- Latin: “Salopiensis comitatus”
- Latvian: “Šropšīra”
- Lithuanian: “Šropšyras”
- Luxembourgish: “Shropshire”
- Macedonian: “Шропшир”
- Manx: “Shropshire”
- Marathi: “श्रॉपशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shropshire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shropshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shropshire”
- Norwegian: “Shropshire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shropshire”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Scrobbesbyrigscīr”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sċrobbesbyriġsċīr”
- Ossetian: “Шропшир”
- Persian: “شراپشایر”
- Persian: “شروپشایر”
- Polish: “Shropshire”
- Portuguese: “Shropshire”
- Quechua: “Shropshire”
- Romanian: “Shropshire”
- Russian: “Салоп”
- Russian: “Шропшир”
- Scots: “Shropshire”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Shropshire”
- Serbian: “Шропшир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shropshire”
- Sindhi: “شراپشائر”
- Slovak: “Shropshire”
- Slovenian: “Shropshire”
- Spanish: “Shropshire”
- Swedish: “Shropshire”
- Tajik: “Шропшир”
- Tamil: “ஷ்ரோபஷிர்”
- Tatar: “Шропшир”
- Telugu: “ష్రాప్షైర్”
- Thai: “ชรอปเชอร์”
- Turkish: “Shropshire Törensel Kontluğu”
- Turkish: “Shropshire”
- Ukrainian: “Салоп”
- Ukrainian: “Шропшир”
- Urdu: “شروپشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de Shrop”
- Vietnamese: “Shropshire”
- Volapük: “Shropshire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shropshire”
- Welsh: “Sir Amwythig”
- Welsh: “Swydd Amwythig”
- Western Frisian: “Shropshire”
- Western Panjabi: “شروپشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “什罗普郡”
- Yiddish: “שראפשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “史樂郡”
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