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MUCH WENLOCK

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 954 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WENLOCK , a See also:market See also:town in the municipal See also:borough of Wenlock (q.v.), and the See also:Ludlow See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Shropshire, See also:England, 163 m. N.W. from See also:London on the See also:Great Western railway. It lies at the See also:north end of Wenlock Edge, a range See also:running See also:south-See also:west from the See also:Severn valley. A priory was founded here as a nunnery by St Milburg, granddaughter of See also:Penda, about 68o, and after being destroyed by the Danes was refounded by See also:Leofric in 1017. Afterwards it was remodelled by See also:Roger de See also:Montgomery for Cluniac monks. There are beautiful remains of the priory See also:church, chiefly See also:Early See also:English; but there is a See also:chapter-See also:house of ornate See also:Norman See also:work. The See also:prior's house, still inhabited, is a remarkable specimen of 15th-See also:century work, adjoining and incorporating remains in earlier styles. The See also:parish church of See also:Holy Trinity, See also:close to the ruins, is of mixed styles from Norman onwards. There is a picturesque See also:half-timbered guild-See also:hall (1589). See also:Trade is mainly agricultural, but there are See also:limestone quarries in the neighbourhood. Wenlock received the See also:grant of a market ftom See also:Henry III. in 1224. It was incorporated by See also:Edward IV. in 1448, when it also received the See also:privilege of returning members to See also:parliament, but in 1885 it ceased to have See also:separate See also:representation.

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