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| Shropshire |
 Shropshire
lies in western England and borders Wales to the west.
Towns include the county seat of Shrewsbury.
The county was once known as Salop. |
| Anglo-Saxons
and Danes |
The
small kingdom of the Wreocensaete once
lay in the north of the county but this later became part of the kingdom
of Mercia. Occupying a large part of
central England, Mercia stretched from Wales in the west to the kingdom
of the East Angles (East Anglia) in the east and from the West Saxon
kingdom of Wessex in the south to Northumbria in the north.
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| Explorers
and Adventurers |
Born
in Dawley in 1848, Matthew Webb became
the first person to swim the English Channel when he swam from Dover
to Cap Gris Nez in 1875. He died in 1883 attempting to be the first
person to swim across the rapids of the Niagara River just below the
Niagara Falls on the US-Canadian border.
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| Historic
Events |
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Major
Battles |
In
1403 at the Battle
of Shrewsbury the reigning monarch Henry
IV put down a rebellion against his reign from the powerful
Percy family of Northumberland. The king together with his son
Prince Henry (the future Henry V) was on the way north with
an army to face a Scottish incursion when he heard of the uprising
by his former supporters and their Welsh allies. He diverted
his army meeting
Henry Percy's rebels at Shrewsbury. The battle was won when
Percy himself was killed leading the rebellion to fall apart.
Henry
IV
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| Royal
Consorts and Heirs |
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House of Tudor |
The
eldest son of Henry
VII and heir to the throne
Arthur, Prince of Wales died at Ludlow
Castle in 1502. It was his younger brother who would become
king as Henry VIII on their father's death in 1509. Arthur is
buried in Worcestershire
at Worcester Cathedral.
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