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Telford & Wrekin
Lawley & Overdale

Telford

Telford is a new town in the ceremonial county of , . 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Telford Central railway station and Telford Shopping Centre.

Railway station
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serves the town of Telford, , England. It is located on the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line and is operated by West Midlands Trains.

Shopping center
Telford Centre, previously branded as , is a 52-acre indoor shopping centre in Telford, Shropshire, England, housing the streets North Sherwood Street, Sherwood Square, Sherwood Street, Wyre Hall, Sherwood Row, Southwater, The Border, Kielder Square, New Street, Chase Telford, Wrekin Square, New Row, Dean Street, Dean Square and Ashdown Row.

Railway station
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serves the town of , , , England. It has two platforms. Rail services are primarily provided by West Midlands Trains with Transport for Wales providing a service on late evenings through the week, and a limited service on Sundays.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oakengates and Dawley.

Town
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is a historic market town and civil parish in the borough of , Shropshire, England. The town's parish population was recorded as 8,517 in the 2001 census.

Town
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is a former mining town and civil parish in the borough of , , England. It was originally proposed to be the main centre of the ' New Town' plan in 1963, however it was decided in 1968 to name the new town as 'Telford', after the engineer and road-builder Thomas Telford.

Suburb
is a suburban village on the western outskirts of in the borough of , England. lies in the parish, and on the northern edge of the Ironbridge Gorge area.

Telford

Latitude
52.6781° or 52° 40′ 41″ north
Longitude
-2.4514° or 2° 27′ 5″ west
Population
180,000
Elevation
535 feet (163 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB TEF
Open location code
9C4VMGHX+6C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26701389
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3345439
Wiki­data ID
Q576938
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Telford” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تيلفورد”
  • Armenian: “Թելֆորդ”
  • Asturian: “Telford”
  • Basque: “Telford”
  • Belarusian: “Тэлфард”
  • Catalan: “Telford”
  • Cebuano: “Telford”
  • Chinese: “特爾福德”
  • Czech: “Telford”
  • Dutch: “Telford”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تلفورد”
  • Esperanto: “Telford”
  • Finnish: “Telford”
  • French: “Telford”
  • German: “Dawley New Town”
  • German: “Telford”
  • Hebrew: “טלפורד”
  • Icelandic: “Telford”
  • Irish: “Telford”
  • Italian: “Telford”
  • Japanese: “テルフォード”
  • Korean: “텔퍼드”
  • Ladin: “Telford”
  • Latin: “Telfordia”
  • Latvian: “Telforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Telfordas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Telford”
  • Northern Frisian: “Telford”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Telford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Telford”
  • Norwegian: “Telford”
  • Persian: “تلفورد”
  • Polish: “Telford”
  • Portuguese: “Telford”
  • Quechua: “Telford”
  • Romanian: “Telford”
  • Russian: “Телфорд”
  • Scots: “Telford”
  • Silesian: “Telford”
  • Slovak: “Telford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تلفورد”
  • Spanish: “Telford”
  • Swahili: “Telford”
  • Swedish: “Telford”
  • Tatar: “Телфорд”
  • Ukrainian: “Телфорд (Англія)”
  • Ukrainian: “Телфорд”
  • Urdu: “ٹیلفورڈ”
  • Venetian: “Telford”
  • Volapük: “Telford”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Telford”
  • Welsh: “Telford”
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