Shrewsbury town Centre, Shropshire, England, UK
Snapshots taken on my visit to Shrewsbury town centre. These various shots were taken in 2011.
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Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, in the West Midlands region of England. Lying on the River Severn, the UK Parliament constituency of Shrewsbury and Atcham is home to some 102,234 inhabitants, whilst the town of Shrewsbury itself has a population of approximately 82,000 and is the primary settlement and headquarters of Shropshire Council. It is the second largest town in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, after Telford.
Shrewsbury is an historic market town with the town centre having a largely unaltered medieval street plan. The town features over 660 historic listed buildings, including several examples of timber framing from the 15th and 16th century. Shrewsbury Castle, a red sandstone castle fortification, and Shrewsbury Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery, were founded in 1074 and 1083 respectively, by the Norman Earl of Shrewsbury, Roger de Montgomery. The town hosts one of the oldest and largest horticultural events in the country, Shrewsbury Flower Show, and is known for its floral displays, having won various awards since the turn of the 21st century,[9][10] including Britain in Bloom in 2006.
Today, 9 miles (14 km) east of the Welsh border, Shrewsbury serves as a cultural and commercial centre for the ceremonial county and a large area of mid-Wales, with retail output alone worth over £299 million per year. There are some light industry and distribution centres, such as Battlefield Enterprise Park, mainly on the outskirts. The A5 and A49 trunk roads cross near to the town, as do five railway lines at Shrewsbury railway station.
The town was possibly the site of the capital of Powys, known to the ancient Britons as Pengwern, signifying the alder hill;and in Old English as Scrobbesburh (dative Scrobbesbyrig), which has several meanings; fort in the scrub-land region, Scrobb's fort, shrubstown or the town of the bushes.This name gradually evolved in three directions, into Sciropscire, which became Shropshire; into Sloppesberie, which became Salop/Salopia (an alternative name for both town and county), and into Schrosberie, which eventually became the town's name, Shrewsbury. Its Welsh name Amwythig means fortified place.
It is believed that Anglo-Saxon Shrewsbury was most probably a settlement fortified through the use of earthworks compromising a ditch and rampart, which were then shored up with a wooden stockade.
Nearby is the village of Wroxeter, 5 miles (8 km) to the south-west, site of the now ruined Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum. Viroconium was the fourth largest civitas capital in Roman Britain. As Caer Guricon it may have served as the early Dark Age capital of the kingdom of Powys. The Shrewsbury area's regional importance in the Roman era was recently underlined with the discovery of the Shrewsbury Hoard in 2009.
Medieval
Shrewsbury Castle was the traditional seat of the borough council and was used, as such, for councillors' meetings until 1981.
Shrewsbury is known as a town with significant medieval heritage, having been founded ca. 800 AD. It was in the late Middle Ages (14th/15th Centuries) when the town was at its height of commercial importance. This was mainly due to the wool trade, a major industry at the time, with the rest of Britain and Europe, especially with the River Severn and Watling Street as trading routes.
Over the ages, the geographically important town has been the site of many conflicts, particularly between the English and Welsh. Shrewsbury was the seat of the Princes of Powis for many years; however, the Angles, under King Offa of Mercia, took possession of it in 778. The Welsh again besieged it in 1069, but were repelled by William the Conqueror. Roger de Montgomery was given the town as a gift from William, and built Shrewsbury Castle in 1074, taking the title of Earl. The 3rd Earl, Robert of Bellême was deposed in 1102, in consequence of taking part in the rebellion against Henry I.[13] In 1403 the Battle of Shrewsbury was fought a few miles north of the town centre, at Battlefield; it was fought between King Henry IV and Henry Hotspur Percy, with the King emerging victorious,[20] an event celebrated in William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5.
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Date: 21 July 1403 Result: Decisive royalist victory
Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
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Part 3 The Story of Saxon Shrewsbury Up to 1066 and All That
Story of Saxon Shrewsbury.
Pt. 3 - Saxon Shrewsbury Up to 1066 and All That!
Scrobbes-byrig (Shrewsbury) flourished as a Saxon town.
It had its own mint in the early 900s, during the reign of King Alfred's son Edward the Elder.
The mint produced coins for the Saxon kings, and, in 2015 the Shropshire Star reported on an auction of one of the coins.
This coin, worth a penny when it was created in Shrewsbury more than 1,000 years ago, was sold for more than £500 in 2015.
The mint had closed by the time of the Norman invasion in 1066.
In 1006 the Kingdom of Pengwern was organised into shires (smaller areas of administration). and Scrobbesbyrigscire (Shropshire), was created.
So, even in 1006, people were still evidently talking about the town of scrubby bushes (Scrobbes-byrig) for many years to come.
...That's quite a tongue-twister! Try saying it out loud. NOW!
AND, it gets worse!
...You got it! They even named the whole COUNTY after those scrubby bushes (alders)!
That happened when Scrobbesbyrigscire, became the County name of what we now call Shropshire.
Moving on to a new subject.
The County Sheriff was a powerful man, and acted on behalf of the king.
He had the authority to collect taxes and raise armies for attacks into Wales.
He was also responsible for enforcing law and order.
Presumably attacking Wales was a perfectly respectable thing, in those days!
Maybe, it was tit for tat?
Also in 1006 King Aethelred the Unready spent the winter in Shrewsbury.
Translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles states Unready to mean “poor counsel”, “evil counsel” or “unwise.
By the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 the town was important enough to be called a city, and Included within its walls four churches and two hundred and fifty-two houses. But, it's was still only the size of one average housing estate!
Historical Text from: The Story of Shrewsbury, R. Graves, Hardwick House, Ellesmere 1993.
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Although the powerful Percy family had supported the Lancastrian King Henry IV when he took the throne from Richard II in 1399, the rebellion of 1403 stemmed from the king’s failure to sufficiently reward the family for the costs they had incurred in doing so.
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