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shrewsbury
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
one of the most etymologically complex of English place names, it illustrates the changes wrought in Old English words by Anglo-French scribes who could not pronounce them. Recorded 1016 as Scrobbesbyrig, it originally may have meant "the fortified place in (a district called) The Scrub." The initial consonant cluster was impossible for the scribes, who simplified it to sr-, then added a vowel (sar-) to make it easier still.\n
\nThe name was also changed by Anglo-French loss or metathesis of liquids in words containing -l-, -n-, or -r- (also evident in the derivatives of Old French Berengier "bear-spear" -- Old High German Beringar -- name of one of the paladins in the Charlemagne romances and a common given name in England 12c. and 13c., which has come down in surnames as Berringer, Bellanger, Benger, etc.). Thus Sarop- became Salop- and in the 12c. and 13c. the overwhelming spelling in government records was Salopesberie, which accounts for the abbreviation Salop for the modern county.\n
\nDuring all this, the Anglo-Saxon inhabitants (as opposed to the French scribes) still pronounced it properly, and regular sound evolutions probably produced a pronunciation something like Shrobesbury (which turns up on a 1327 patent roll). After a predictable -b- to -v- (a vowel in the Middle Ages) to -u- shift, the modern spelling begins to emerge 14c. and is fully established 15c.\n
\nShrewsbury clock, for some reason, became proverbial for exactness, and thus, naturally, proverbial as indicating exaggeration of accuracy (1590s).
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 3390
Land area (2000): 1.427145 sq. miles (3.696288 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.427145 sq. miles (3.696288 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67700
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.587902 N, 90.326989 W
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Headwords:
Shrewsbury
Housing Units (2000): 1223
Land area (2000): 2.206433 sq. miles (5.714634 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.016689 sq. miles (0.043224 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.223122 sq. miles (5.757858 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67350
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.326524 N, 74.059289 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 07702
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Headwords:
Shrewsbury
Housing Units (2000): 1367
Land area (2000): 1.762723 sq. miles (4.565432 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.762723 sq. miles (4.565432 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70568
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 39.767127 N, 76.678965 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 17361
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Headwords:
Shrewsbury
Wikipedia
Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire in the United Kingdom, founded c. 800. A number of people, places and other locations have their names deriving from this original place.
Shrewsbury was a parliamentary constituency in England, centred on the town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire.
It was founded in 1290 as parliamentary borough, returning two members to the House of Commons of England until 1707, then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, its representation was reduced to one Member of Parliament (MP).
The parliamentary borough was abolished at with effect from the 1918 general election, and the name transferred to a new county constituency. It was abolished in 1983 and renamed Shrewsbury and Atcham.
Famous MPs have included Sir Philip Sidney in 1581, Robert Clive (known as 'Clive of India') from 1761 to his death in 1774, and Benjamin Disraeli (later Prime Minister) in 1841-47.
Shrewsbury ( or ) is the county town of Shropshire, England. It is on the River Severn and has a population of approximately 72,000.
Shrewsbury is a market town whose centre has a largely unaltered medieval street plan and over 660 listed buildings, including several examples of timber framing from the 15th and 16th centuries. Shrewsbury Castle, a red sandstone 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 has historically been a centre for the wool trade and brewing. Horticulture remains popular, and the Shrewsbury Flower Show is one of the largest horticultural events in England.
Located east of the Welsh border, Shrewsbury serves as the commercial centre for Shropshire and mid-Wales, with a retail output of over £299 million per year and light industry and distribution centres, such as Battlefield Enterprise Park, on the outskirts. The A5 and A49 trunk roads cross near to the town, and five railway lines meet at Shrewsbury railway station.
Usage examples of "shrewsbury".
Chaucer Folio, the Shakespeare First Quarto, the three Kelmscott Morrises, the autographed copy of The Man of Property, and the embroidered glove belonging to the Countess of Shrewsbury.
The queen gave into his hands the death warrant, and with it an order addressed to the Earls of Shrewsbury, Kent, Rutland, and other noblemen in the neighbourhood of Fotheringay, to be present at the execution.
Earls of Kent and Shrewsbury, and Beale sent word to the queen that they desired to speak with her.
Chapter Nine OWAIN GWYNEDD SENT BACK HIS RESPONSE to the events at Shrewsbury on the day after Anions flight, by the mouth of young John Marchmain, who had remained in Wales to stand surety for Gilbert Prestcote in the exchange of prisoners.
He rode with ears pricked for any promising sound, pausing wherever his labyrinthine path crossed a track bearing westward out of Shrewsbury, and wherever he met with cottage or assart he asked after his two travellers.
The Long Forest, south and south-west of Shrewsbury, had survived unplundered longer than most of its kind, its assarts few and far between, its hunting coverts thick and wild, its open heaths home to all manner of creatures of earth and air.
The disclosure of his father's, the late King's, secret marriage, first to the Lady Eleanor Butler, daughter of the great Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, then bigamously to the Dowager Queen, Elizabeth, formerly the widow of Lord Grey of Groby, had resulted in the loss of all his hopes.
The goldsmiths burgage was situated on the street leading to the gateway of the castle, where the neck of land narrowed, so that the rear plots of the houses on either side the street ran down to the town wall, while the great rondel of Shrewsbury lay snug to the south-west in the loop of the Severn.
He had fought upon the King's side in all the late wars, and had at Shrewsbury received a wound that unfitted him for active service, so that now he was fallen to the post of Captain of Esquires at Devlen Castle--a man disappointed in life, and with a temper imbittered by that failure as well as by cankering pain.
The mastercarpenter, who had once been an assistant at Shrewsbury under Master Robert, was beginning the construction of centring for the great west window and the portal.
Peter Clemence had done so, choosing to call upon his kinsfolk when the chance offered, rather than make for the safe haven of Shrewsbury abbey.
Checking his records, he was able to tell me that large consignments had been shipped to Shrewsbury in 1642, to Worcester and Bristol in 1645, and to Exeter in 1646.
And at all events, between Abingdon and Shrewsbury its possible they may have encountered Luc Meverel alone and under his own name.
He prayed without coherent words, for all those caught between right and expedient, between duty and conscience, between the affections of earth and the abnegations of heaven: for Jovetta de Montors, for her son, murdered quite practically and coldly to clear the way for a coup, for Robert Bossu and all those labouring for peace through repeated waves of disillusion and despair, for the young who had no clear guidance where to go, and the old, who had tried and discarded everything: for Olivier and Yves and their like, who in their scornful and ruthless purity despised the manipulations of subtler souls: for Cadfael, once a brother of the Benedictine house of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury, who had done what he had to do, and now waited to pay for it.
In 1575 we find the Earl of Shrewsbury presenting to his friend Lord Burleigh "a case of Hallamshire whittells, being such fruites as his pore cuntrey affordeth with fame throughout the realme.