Shrewsbury

Meaning

1. A civil parish with a town council which includes the town in Shropshire, which partly replaced Shrewsbury and Atcham District when it was abolished in 2009.
2. A small hamlet in Chatham-Kent municipality, south-western Ontario, Canada.
3. A hamlet in Portland parish, Jamaica.
4. A large market town, the county town of Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4912).
5. A number of places in the United States:
6. A declining rural unincorporated community in Grayson County, Kentucky.
7. A former unincorporated community in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; a suburb of New Orleans.
8. A ghost town in Gore township, Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.

Etymology / origin

From Old English Sċrobbesburh (literally “fort in the scrubland region”), from *sċrob (“shrub, scrub”) + burh. Compare Shropshire from Sċrobbesċīr, short form of Sċrobbesbyriġ sċīr (literally “shire of Shrewsbury”).

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