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Shropshire
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synonyms: Salop, Shrops, ~Salopian ???
tags: [geography]
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Definition:a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.[...]The county contains a number of historically significant towns, including Shrewsbury, Bridgnorth and Ludlow (which was the seat of the Council of Wales and the Marches).text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Angus: ...and a farmer in Rye heard a cow reciting Geoffrey Chaucer; and a young woman in Shropshire saw Geoffrey Chaucer in a field, mooing and suckling a young heifer!
Blackadder: Gentlemen, gentlemen, surely we aren't the sort of people who believe in this sort of thing. I mean, next you'll be telling me is that washing your hair in bat's droppings stops you going bald.
BBC. Blackadder, season 1: Witchsmeller Pursuivant
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"Beastly place," said Drummle. "Your part of the country, I think?"
"Yes," I assented. "I am told it's very like your Shropshire."
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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But the captain, Mr. Thomas Wilcocks, an honest worthy Shropshire man, observing I was ready to faint, took me into his cabin, gave me a cordial to comfort me, and made me turn in upon his own bed, advising me to take a little rest, of which I had great need.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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