Shrawardine, locally pronounced Shraden, is a small village in the civil parish

Civil parish

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 of Montford 5.9 miles (9.5 km) outside of Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, in the West Midlands region of England. Lying on the River Severn, it is a civil parish home to some 70,000 inhabitants, and is the primary settlement and headquarters of Shropshire Council...

, the county town

County town

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 of Shropshire

Shropshire

Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

, England

England

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. There is a hamlet called Little Shrawardine 0.25 mile (0.402335 km) away.

Its landmarks include Shrawardine Castle and St Mary's Church. The castle, known as Castell Isabella by the Anglo-Norman

Anglo-Norman

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s, was built in the reign of Henry I of England

Henry I of England

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, and dismantled in 1645. It had been held since 1644 by the Royalist commander Sir William Vaughan

William Vaughan (royalist)

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, whose aggressive tactics earned him the nickname "the Devil of Shrawardine".

The River Severn

River Severn

The River Severn is the longest river in Great Britain, at about , but the second longest on the British Isles, behind the River Shannon. It rises at an altitude of on Plynlimon, Ceredigion near Llanidloes, Powys, in the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales...

passes to the west of the village.

Shrawardine is also famous for its red phone box, which featured in the Hollywood film dude, wheres my car?

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