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Market Drayton
Market Drayton (Shropshire)
Market Drayton

Market Drayton shown within Shropshire
Population 10,407
OS grid reference SJ673321
District North Shropshire
Shire county Shropshire
Region West Midlands
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town MARKET DRAYTON
Postcode district TF9
Dialling code 01630
Police West Mercia
Fire Shropshire
Ambulance West Midlands
European Parliament West Midlands
UK Parliament North Shropshire
List of places: UK • England • Shropshire

Coordinates: 52°54′16″N 2°29′05″W / 52.9044, -2.4848

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Market Drayton is on the Shropshire Union Canal and on National Cycle Route 75. The Shropshire Union Canal is a navigable Canal in England; the Llangollen and Montgomery canals are the modern names of branches of the SU system Sustrans is a British charity which promotes Sustainable transport. The A53 road by-passes the town. The A53 is a Primary route in northern England, that runs from Buxton in Derbyshire to Shrewsbury in Shropshire. Although near the Western edge of England, very close to Wales, it can be said to be the most central town in England by means of a geomeric exercise : if one draws a rectangle just touching the north, south, east and west extremities of the country (including the Isles of Scilly), the central point falls about two miles south of the town, near the village of Woodseaves.

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Industry

The town is promoted as 'the home of gingerbread'. Gingerbread is a sweet that can take the form of a Cake or a Cookie in which the predominant flavors are ginger and raw Sugar. The oldest recorded mention of gingerbread in Market Drayton goes back to 1793. At its peak, the traditional biscuity gingerbread, which contained rum, was made by four bakers in the town. Today the leading gingerbread maker is Image on Food,[1]who produce nearly one million novelty gingerbread figures for Britain's leading retailers.

It is also home to Palethorpe's, now part of the Pork Farms Group who are the towns largest employer [2] producing pork pies, hot eating pies, sausage rolls and other chilled pastry products and the Müller Dairies [3] making yoghurts. Pork pies are a type of Meat pie and are traditional British food A sausage roll is a type of Convenience food commonly served at parties and available from Bakeries and Milk bars as a Takeaway food item This article describes Pastry in food For the Distributed Hash Table system see Pastry_(DHT. Molkerei Alois Müller GmbH & Co KG (often called Müllermilch or simply Müller) is a German Dairy company based in Aretsried which is part Yoghurt, yogurt, yoghourt, youghurt or yogourt (see spelling below is a

The town is also the home of Tern Press, a highly respected and collectible small press publisher of poetry. See also Alternative media Small press is a term often used to describe Publishers with annual sales below a certain level

Recent developments in the local service industry include the retailers Argos and Wilkinsons, both of which brought welcome new employment to the town. Argos is the largest general-goods Retailer in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland with over 700 stores

Sites of Interest

There are a number of 17th and 18th century half-timbered buildings in the town centre, as well as a restored Norman church, St. Mary's, next to the Grammar School of 1558. Timber framing (Fachwerk or Half-timbering, is the method of creating framed structures of heavy timber jointed together with pegged Mortise and tenon joints A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan For other buildings in Normandy see Architecture of Normandy. A grammar school is one of several different types of School in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries

The town's marketplace is ancient, with a market charter granted from 1246, and the market continues today. The great fire of Drayton destroyed almost 70% of the town in the 17th century. It was started at a baker's, and quickly spread through the timber buildings. This article refers to the cooking profession For other uses see Baker (disambiguation A baker is someone who primarily Bakes The Buttercross in the centre of the town still has a bell at the top for people to ring if there was ever another fire.

Ancient local sites include: Audley's Cross, Blore Heath the site of a major War of the Roses battle; and several Neolithic standing stones, "The Devil's Ring and Finger", just three miles from the town. A cross sited in Blore Heath, Staffordshire to mark the spot on which James Touchet Lord Audley was killed at the Battle of Blore Heath in 1459 Blore Heath is a sparsely populated area of farmland in Staffordshire, England. The Neolithic (from Greek νεολιθικός — neolithikos from νέος neos, "new" + λίθος lithos Standing stones, orthostats, liths or more commonly Megaliths ' because of their large and cumbersome size are solitary stones set vertically in the

Other interesting sites worth investigating further in the Market Drayton area include: Pell Wall Hall[4], Buntingsdale Hall, Salisbury Hill, Tyrley Locks on the Shropshire Union Canal and the Thomas Telford designed aqueduct. The Shropshire Union Canal is a navigable Canal in England; the Llangollen and Montgomery canals are the modern names of branches of the SU system Thomas Telford (9 August 1757 - 2 September 1834 was born in Westerkirk, Scotland. An aqueduct is an artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another Also you will find available just outside of the town proper, an opportunity to experience a bit of English countryside at Fordhall Farm[5], which consists of 140 acres of community-owned organic farmland located off of the A53 between the Müller and Tern Hill roundabouts. Organic farming is a form of agriculture that relies on Crop rotation, Green manure, Compost, Biological pest control, and mechanical Cultivation The farm trail is open to the public during farm shop opening hours, and included along the path is the site of an ancient motte and bailey structure which overlooks the River Tern valley. nA motte-and-bailey is a form of Castle. Many were built in Britain, Ireland and France in the 11th and 12th centuries favored as a relatively For the bird see River Tern (bird The River Tern (also historically known as the Tearne) is a river in Shropshire,

Many of the streets in the town are named after famous castles, such as Balmoral Drive, Caernavon Close, Windsor Drive, Warwick Close, and many others. A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages.

Aqueduct

St Mary's Church

Tyrley Locks

Pell Wall Hall

Famous residents

Nearby at Styche Hall is the birthplace of Robert Clive, first Lord Clive, "Clive of India", 1725–1774. Clive of India redirects here For the film see Clive of India (film. The Georgian house, designed by Sir William Chambers, the architect of Somerset House, replaced the half-timbered house where Clive was born. Georgian architecture is the name given in most English -speaking countries to the set of Architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840 Sir William Chambers ( 27 October 1723 &ndash 17 February 1796) was a Scottish Architect, born in Gothenburg Somerset House is a large building situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Timber framing (Fachwerk or Half-timbering, is the method of creating framed structures of heavy timber jointed together with pegged Mortise and tenon joints It was built for his father and paid for by Clive from the first "profits" of his Indian career.

Amongst the many schools he attended is the town's old grammar school, next to St Mary's church. A school desk with the initials RC can still be seen in the town.

The town was the birthplace of pioneering photographer Samuel Bourne (b. Samuel Bourne (1834&ndash 24 April 1912) was a British Photographer known for his work in India. 1834). He is famous for having spent six years in India from 1862 to 1869; there he founded a major studio, trekked into and photographed many of India's remotest places and, with his printer Charles Shepherd, became the most notable photographer of the Raj. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Charles Shepherd could refer to Charles Shepherd (boxer - Former British Commonwealth and IBO featherweight boxing champion Raj may refer to Jaskinia Raj, cave in Poland Ráj, village in the Czech Republic administratively part of Karviná

The British 1930's British fascist leader Oswald Mosley was born nearby in 1896, at Betton Hall, the home of his mother's parents. Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 &ndash 3 December 1980 was a British Politician, known principally as the founder of the British On the separation of his parents, his mother, Oswald and his brother went to live in Smithfield Road. Mosley attended a dame school in Shropshire Street until he went to public school at the age of eight. Apart from holidays he never lived in Drayton again.

Mosley was deeply ashamed of their reduced circumstances and he did everything to hide the years in Drayton. Their middle class status contrasted with the huge estate of his parental grandparents in Staffordshire. Years later, following the death of their mother, he obtained her diaries from his brother and burned them.

In the 1930's at the height of his "fame", he returned to the town where he held a meeting in the square.

The novelist John Templeton Smith, although born in Shrewsbury, lived in Market Drayton during the 1940's and early 1950's. His best selling trilogy: "White Lie", "Saigon Express, and "Then A Soldier" was published by Simon & Schuster (London) between 1999 and 2002. Simon & Schuster Inc, a division of CBS Corporation, is a Publisher founded in New York in 1924 by Richard L

Market Drayton can also claim to be home to the most famous poacher of recent times. Never far from the headlines in the mid to late 1970s was Poddy Podmore [6],who kept the public distracted with a series of stunts, pranks, and run-ins with the law. There was even a fan club to him in Philadelphia called Pod's People, selling badges to Americans who loved his antics, which were not always in good taste, nor were they always legal. A man of the countryside, Poddy – his real first name was Derek – lived near Market Drayton, and was a self-confessed poacher. One of his most celebrated stunts was just before Christmas in 1977. He dressed as Santa Claus and climbed on to the roof of Shrewsbury jail with a sack of cigarettes and tobacco for the inmates. For over an hour he bellowed “Merry Christmas” from his lofty perch. He came back to earth after a Green Goddess [7]fire engine arrived with ladders,and prison officers and police joined him on the roof. The Green Goddess is the colloquial name for the Bedford RLHZ Self Propelled Pump, a fire engine used originally by the AFS ( Auxiliary Fire Service Poddy was whisked off in a Black Maria. Other cunning stunts included having himself nailed by the ear to a tree, appearing in court covered in manure wearing a dead pig as a hat, and appearing in court dressed as a frogman. That happened after his infamous “warm-up” for a world frog swallowing record attempt in 1974 when he swallowed a live frog at a Market Drayton pub and washed it down with a pint of black and tan.

Market Drayton has always been a hotbed for musical 'talent' producing a number of bands who have progressed on to achieve regional acclaim. In the early 1980s the town boasted the 'best' School Rock Band in the country, TSB National School Band winners, Monovision. At the same time the local youth club were represented by the Platinum Needles [8] in the NAYC Opportunity Rocks competition final. In early 1981 The Platinum Needles were also featured on the Stoke Musicians Collective album released on Slip Records "Cry Havoc" [9]. In more recent times Sonic State [10] another local band have produced the theme music for a TV program while sharing their lead singer Jenny Z with the more famous Sigue Sigue Sputnik [11] (formed by former Generation X guitarist Tony James). Sigue Sigue Sputnik is a British pop - Cyberpunk influenced band led by former Generation X bassist Tony James. During the late seventies, early eighties Drayton also boasted one of the only recording studios in Shropshire, Redball Records. In 2006 the Grove School based band "The Froliks" won the battle of the bands competition at the West Mids county show. [12]

Facilities

Market Drayton hosts a modern 25 metre indoor swimming pool with an outdoor pool available in the summertime. This facility has taken the place of a 50 metre lido (swimming pool). A lido, in the United Kingdom, Portugal and some other countries refers to a public outdoor Swimming pool and surrounding facilities or part of a beach There is also a skate park near the swimming facilities.

Education

Market Drayton has 4 schools:

The Grove School is a large secondary school, of approximately 1100 students all of whom are located within 12 miles of the town. See also Primary education A primary school (from French école primaire) is an institution where children receive the first stage of Compulsory Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational Institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling known as Secondary education, takes

Twinning

Despite its rather small size and rural location, the town has forged successful links with its twin towns of Arlon in Belgium and Pézenas in the south of France. Arlon (Arel Aarlen is a Belgian municipality located in the Walloon province The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Pézenas is a commune in the Hérault department in Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. This latter link is due to the connection of Lord Clive with both towns. Clive of India redirects here For the film see Clive of India (film.

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