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MARKET DRAYTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 734 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARKET See also:DRAYTON , a market See also:town in the See also:Newport See also:division of See also:Shropshire, See also:England, on the See also:river See also:Tern and the Shropshire See also:Union See also:canal, 178 m. N.W. from See also:London. Pop. (See also:civil See also:parish of Drayton-in-See also:Hales, Igor), 5167. The See also:Wellington-See also:Crewe See also:line of the See also:Great Western railway is here joined by a See also:branch into See also:Staffordshire of the See also:North Staffordshire railway. The See also:church of St See also:Mary has See also:Norman remains but is modernised by restoration. The town is a centre of agricultural See also:trade, and there are large See also:iron foundries. It is in the parish of Drayton-in-Hales, a name sometimes applied to it; and it is also known as Drayton Magna. It is an See also:ancient town, of which the See also:manor was held successively by the abbots of St Ebrulph in See also:Normandy and See also:Combermere in See also:Cheshire. On Blore See also:Heath, 3 M. See also:east'in Staffordshire, See also:Audley See also:Cross marks a great See also:battle in the See also:Wars of the See also:Roses (1459), in which the Yorkists were successful and See also:Lord Audley See also:fell.

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