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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 .
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]
Culina Group Limited is a UK food and drink logistics company with its head office based in Market Drayton, Shropshire. It owns a number of other brands including Eddie Stobart Group , [ 4 ] and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Müller Group .
In 2010, the company employed over 2,000 people at five locations, in Poole, Nottingham, Market Drayton and Shaftesbury. [6] In 2011, Pork Farms commemorated its 80th anniversary with a £1 million relaunch and a new range of slices. Packaging carried the straplines 'Making & Baking since 1931' and 'Butchers, Bakers, Master Piemakers'. [7]
Pell Wall Hall. Pell Wall Hall is a neo-classical country house on the outskirts of Market Drayton in Shropshire.Faced in Grinshill sandstone, Pell Wall is the last completed domestic house designed by Sir John Soane and was constructed 1822–1828 [1] for local iron merchant Purney Sillitoe at a total cost of £20,976.
The Market Drayton Electric Light and Power Company Limited was registered on 4 February 1902. [1] Its legal powers were derived from an Electric Lighting Order dated 1903. The company's offices were in Cheshire Street, Market Drayton and the power station was in Great Hales Street, Market Drayton (52°54'10.1"N 2°28'51.6"W).
The line was doubled during 1866–67, to match the Wellington and Drayton Railway which opened in October 1867, thus providing a link for the GWR between the Midlands and the Northwest. The North Staffordshire Railway line from Stoke to Market Drayton opened in January 1870, joining the line at Silverdale Junction, just north of Market Drayton.