Wem
Wem is a market town in the civil parish of Wem Urban, in Shropshire, England, 9 miles north of Shrewsbury and 9 miles south of Whitchurch. The name is derived from the Old English term wamm, meaning "marsh".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,870 residents
- Description: town in Shropshire, England
- Neighbors: Shrewsbury
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wem railway station and Wem Town Hall.
Wem railway station
Railway station
Photo: Andy and Hilary, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wem railway station serves the town of Wem in Shropshire, England. The station is 10¾ miles north of Shrewsbury on the Welsh Marches Line to Crewe. The station has two platforms.
Wem Town Hall
Arts center
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wem Town Hall is a building in the market-town of Wem in Shropshire, England. It is currently used as a venue for music and dance concerts, films, stage shows and exhibitions.
Wem Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Jennymutual, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wem Castle is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Loppington and Clive.
Loppington
Village
Photo: John Harding, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loppington is a village and parish in Shropshire, England, situated a few miles west of Wem. The population of the parish is 576 and there are 206 households. Loppington is situated 2½ miles west of Wem.
Clive
Village
Photo: J Scott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clive is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, United Kingdom. Clive is situated around the west side of Grinshill Hill. Grinshill sandstone, from the nearby quarry at Grinshill is used throughout the village for building material from walls and houses to the village church. Clive is situated 3 miles south of Wem.
Tilley
Village
Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tilley is a small village in the civil parish of Wem Rural, to the south of and almost merged with Wem in north Shropshire. A hamlet, Tilley Green, lies to its southeast at grid reference SJ511273.
Wem
- Categories: market town and locality
- Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.8556° or 52° 51′ 20″ northLongitude
-2.7241° or 2° 43′ 27″ westPopulation
5,870Elevation
269 feet (82 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WNROpen location code
9C4VV74G+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 333185310OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Wem” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Wem”
- Basque: “Wem”
- Bengali: “ওয়াম নগর”
- Catalan: “Wem”
- Cebuano: “Wem”
- Chinese: “Wem”
- Chinese: “韋姆”
- Chinese: “韦姆”
- Dutch: “Wem”
- French: “Wem”
- German: “Wem”
- Gujarati: “વેમ”
- Hebrew: “ום”
- Hungarian: “Wem”
- Irish: “Wem”
- Italian: “Wem”
- Japanese: “ウェム・アーバン”
- Kannada: “ವೆಮ್”
- Korean: “웸”
- Ladin: “Wem”
- Latin: “Rutunium”
- Lithuanian: “Vem Urbanas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wem”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wem”
- Persian: “وم، شروپشر”
- Polish: “Wem”
- Portuguese: “Wem”
- Romanian: “Wem”
- Russian: “Уэм”
- Silesian: “Wem”
- South Azerbaijani: “وم، شروپشر”
- Spanish: “Wem”
- Swedish: “Wem”
- Tamil: “வெம்”
- Telugu: “వెమ్”
- Ukrainian: “Вем”
- Urdu: “ویم”
- Volapük: “Wem”
- Welsh: “Wem”
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