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Traders in Market Drayton have said they are "thrilled" to find out the indoor and outdoor markets have made the top 10 shortlist for Britain's Favourite Market 2025. The shortlist was drawn up ...
Market Drayton is a market town and civil parish on the banks of the River Tern in Shropshire, England. It is close to the Cheshire and Staffordshire borders. It is located between the towns of Whitchurch , Wem , Nantwich , Newcastle-under-Lyme , Newport and the city of Stoke on Trent .
Pigs and pig ark at Fordhall Farm. The white building is the farm shop. Fordhall Farm is an organic farm of 128 acres, in Market Drayton in north Shropshire, England.It is owned by an industrial and provident society, the Fordhall Community Land Initiative (FCLI), whose aim is to use the farm for community benefit.
Construction began in 1909 and was completed in 1911, as the largest livestock exchange building in the world. [2] In 1957, a one-story addition was constructed on the south side for the Golden Ox restaurant which had opened in 1949.
The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of Market Drayton Rural District and North Shropshire Rural District. [1]The district and its council were abolished on 1 April 2009, when the new Shropshire Council unitary authority was established, as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England.
In 1967 Palethorpe's constructed a purpose-built factory employing 400 people in Market Drayton, at a cost of £650,000. [1] This resulted in the closure of the Tipton factory in 1968, after which it was demolished and redeveloped as low-rise council flats. [2]
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The Domesday Book of 1086 mentions "a Priest in Drayton", and there was likely a wooden Anglo-Saxon church on the same site prior to the construction of the present Norman stone building, which dates to 1150. [2] In 1201 Pope Innocent III forbade the weekly market which had traditionally taken place in the churchyard after the Sunday morning ...