Shrewsbury.
A large market town, the county town of Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4912).
Meaning & usage
A large market town, the county town of Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4912).
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.
A small hamlet in Chatham-Kent municipality, south-western Ontario, Canada.
A ghost town in Gore township, Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
A hamlet in Portland parish, Jamaica.
A number of places in the United States: A declining rural unincorporated community in Grayson County, Kentucky.
A number of places in the United States: A former unincorporated community in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; a suburb of New Orleans.
A number of places in the United States: A town in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
A number of places in the United States: A city in St. Louis County, Missouri; an inner suburb of St. Louis.
A number of places in the United States: A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, which has shrunk in size since 1693.
A number of places in the United States: A borough in eastern Monmouth County, New Jersey, formed in 1926 from the township.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Upper Freehold Township, in southwestern Monmouth County, New Jersey.
A number of places in the United States: An estuary in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
A number of places in the United States: A borough in York County, Pennsylvania.
A number of places in the United States: Three townships in Pennsylvania, in Lycoming County, Sullivan County and York County.
A number of places in the United States: A town in Rutland County, Vermont.
A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
An English earldom.
Where this word comes from
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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