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| Shropshire | |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County |
| Region: | West Midlands |
| Area: - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area | Ranked 13th 3,487 kmē Ranked 14th 3,197 kmē |
| Admin HQ: | Shrewsbury |
| ISO 3166-2: | GB-SHR |
| ONS code: | 39 |
| NUTS 3: | UKG22 |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total ( 2002 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop. | Ranked 42ndThis is a List of Ceremonial counties of England by Population 2002 mid-year estimates from the Office for National Statistics, unrounded figures published by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the Entitlement Notification Reports for Revenue Supp 445,780 128 / kmē Ranked 34thThis is a List of Administrative shire counties of England by Population that is to say Administrative counties with a two-tier County council structure, not including Administrative counties which are Unitary Authorities. Populations are 2002 mid-year es 285,204 |
| Ethnicity: | 97.3% White 1.2% S.Asian |
| Politics | |
| Shropshire County Council http://www.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/ | |
| Executive: | Labour & Liberal DemocratThe Liberal Democrats ("Lib Dems") are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. The party was formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the short lived Social Democratic Party (the two parties had already been in an allian & Independents |
| MPsThis is a list of MPs elected to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Third Parliament of the United Kingdom at the UK general election, 2001, arranged by constituency. New MPs elected since the general election and changes in party allegiance are noted at: | Peter BradleyPeter Charles Stephen Bradley (born April 12, 1953) is an English politician, and Labour member of Parliament for The Wrekin since the 1997 election. He had previously served on Westminster Council, and is a founder of the Rural Group of Labour MPs. Bradl, Matthew GreenMatthew Roger Green (born April 12 1970) is British Liberal Democrat MP for Ludlow and his party's spokesman on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. He claims to be the first "Official" Liberal to represent Ludlow since 1886. A graduate of the Univers, Paul MarsdenPaul William Barry Marsden (born 18 March 1968) is a British politician. He is Liberal Democrat member of Parliament for Shrewsbury and Atcham. He was first elected to the seat in 1997, under the banner of the Labour Party. He defected to the Lib Dems in, Owen Paterson, David Wright |
| Districts | |
Shropshire (abbreviated Salop or Salops) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Cheshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and the Welsh preserved counties of Powys and Clwyd.
Shropshire is one of England's most rural counties. The county town is Shrewsbury, although the new town of Telford is the largest town. Also in this rural county is Coalbrookdale, where the Industrial Revolution started, Ironbridge, where the world's first iron bridge was constructed and Ditherington, where the world's first iron framed building was built. (See the "cradle of industry" section below).
The ceremonial county of Shropshire is now split up into the administrative county of Shropshire and the unitary authority of Telford and Wrekin borough. Shropshire, the administrative county, is then split up into five districts - Shrewsbury and Atcham borough, Oswestry borough, North Shropshire district, South Shropshire district and Bridgnorth district. The area covered by the ceremonial county has not changed for centuries (other than the removal of several exclaves in other counties) - see traditional counties of England.
The county was called Salop in legal documents for some centuries, a name deriving from 'Salopesbiry', an older name for the county town, Shrewsbury. When a council for the county was set up in 1888, it was called 'Salop County Council'. The name was never popular, and the council renamed itself 'Shropshire County Council' in 1980. However, the term "Salopian", derived from "Salop", is still used to mean "from Shropshire".
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