Shifnal
Sign in to saveShifnal () is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, about east of Telford, 17 miles (27 km) east of Shrewsbury and 13 miles (20 km) west-northwest of Wolverhampton. It is near the M54 motorway and A5 road aka Watling Street. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 6,391, increasing to 6,776 at the 2011 census.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Shifnal
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- West Midlands
- UK place.static_image_name
- Market Place and Park Street Shifnal.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Market Place and Park Street
- UK place.population
- 7,009
- UK place.population_ref
- (2017)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SJ7407
- UK place.post_town
- SHIFNAL
- UK place.postcode_area
- TF
- UK place.postcode_district
- TF11
- UK place.dial_code
- 01952
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- The Wrekin
- UK place.civil_parish
- Shifnal
- UK place.unitary_england
- Shropshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Shropshire
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- Etymology
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- Pre-Norman
- Norman
- Plantagenet period
- Tudor and Stuart times
- 18th and 19th centuries
- The Shifnal Bank Fraud
- The 20th and 21st centuries
- Culture
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- Transport
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- Places of interest
- Churches
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- Sports
- Education
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- Sport
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Shifnal () is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, about east of Telford, 17 miles (27 km) east of Shrewsbury and 13 miles (20 km) west-northwest of Wolverhampton. It is near the M54 motorway and A5 road aka Watling Street. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 6,391, increasing to 6,776 at the 2011 census.
==Etymology== Shifnal is thought to be the place named "Scuffanhalch" in a 9th-century charter, as a possession of the monastery at Medeshamstede (later Peterborough Abbey). Though this seems a dubious claim, and the ancient charter is in fact a 12th-century forgery, the full picture is more complex. Sir Frank Stenton considered that "Scuffanhalch", along with "Costesford" (Cosford) and "Stretford", formed part of a list of places which had once been connected with Medeshamstede; and the charter purports to have been issued by King Æthelred of Mercia, during much of whose reign the bishop of Mercia was Sexwulf (or "Saxwulf"), founder and first abbot of Medeshamstede.