Shrewsbury (England)

Shrewsbury is the capital of the English County of Shropshire. The city, which is strategically located in a loop of the river Severn, close to the border with Wales, was founded in the early Middle Ages, France 70.689 inhabitants (2008) and has the status of town.

There are many monuments in Shrewsbury, including the Castle and Benedictine Abbey, both of which were founded in the eleventh century . In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the city experienced its largest bloom thanks to the strong development of trade in wool. In 1403 the battle of Shrewsbury took place just a stone's throw away from the city, between the English King Henry IV and Henry Percy, nicknamed ' Harry Hotspur '.

Shrewsbury has since 1977 a twinned with Zutphen. Sir Philip Sidney, English statesman and poet grew up in and was mortally wounded during the battle of Warnsveldin 1586, a military confrontation between the English and Spanish in the neighborhood of Zutphen.

The book series by the British writer Ellis Peters about the 12th-century detective-monk brother Cadfael is set in Shrewsbury and the surrounding area. Parts of the verfilmimg between 1994 and 1998 were on location included. Thanks to brother Cadfael the Abbey welcomes thousands of visitors annually. [1] ==Born[ Edit] == ==(ex-)Residents in Shrewsbury[ Edit] == ==D. in Shrewsbury[ Edit] ==
 * Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809), naturalist, biologist and geologist
 * Sandy Lyle (born February 9, 1958), golfer
 * Charlie Adlard (born april 8, 1966), comic artist
 * Billy Jones (24 March 1987), footballer
 * Steven Fletcher (born March 26, 1987), Scottish footballer
 * Danny Guthrie (18 april 1987), footballer
 * Joe Hart (april 19, 1987), footballer
 * Robert Clive (1725) Governor General
 * Wilfred Owen (1893), poet
 * Michael Heseltine (1933), entrepreneur, Member of the conservative party
 * Ian Hunter (1939), singer
 * John Peel (1939-2004), BBC radio disc jockey
 * Michael Palin (1943), actor and comedian
 * Steve Winwood (1948), pop singer
 * Pete Postlethwaite, actor