Shropshire and West Midlands Show
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The Shropshire
and West Midlands
Show, though usually called the West Mid Show, is an annual agriculture
-related show held on the outskirts of Shrewsbury
(at Coton Hill), England
.
It has its own showground - the Shropshire Agricultural Showground, which lies on the north bank of the River Severn
in a rural setting (though it is also only a mile from Shrewsbury town centre). The showground is accessed via Berwick Road, the B5067.
The show is held usually in May and attracts as many as 40,000 people, from across the region.
On 07 November 2009 the society which runs the show went into liquidation, all staff were made redundant with immediate effect. . Shropshire County Council have taken over as organisers, and the event has been renamed the Shropshire County Show.
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...
and West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...
Show, though usually called the West Mid Show, is an annual agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
-related show held on the outskirts 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...
(at Coton Hill), England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.
It has its own showground - the Shropshire Agricultural Showground, which lies on the north bank of 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...
in a rural setting (though it is also only a mile from Shrewsbury town centre). The showground is accessed via Berwick Road, the B5067.
The show is held usually in May and attracts as many as 40,000 people, from across the region.
On 07 November 2009 the society which runs the show went into liquidation, all staff were made redundant with immediate effect. . Shropshire County Council have taken over as organisers, and the event has been renamed the Shropshire County Show.