Market Drayton

Drayton or Market Drayton was a rural district in Shropshire, England from 1894 to 1974. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 under the name 'Drayton', from that part of the Market Drayton rural sanitary district which was in Shropshire (the rest forming Blore Heath Rural District in Staffordshire). In 1966 the district was merged with the Market Drayton urban district and renamed the 'Market Drayton' rural district. In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 it was abolished, and became part of the North Shropshire district.

St Mary's Church, Market Drayton, stands on the top of a prominent outcrop of red sandstone rock above the River Tern. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

Market Drayton Methodist Church is a Methodist Church on Shrewsbury Road in Market Drayton, Shropshire. It is part of the Market Drayton Churches Together group of churches and Market Drayton Food Bank.

Market Drayton railway station served the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, England, between 1863 and 1963. It was at the junction where three railway lines met: two of them, forming the Great Western Railway route between Wellington (Shropshire) and Crewe, were met by a line from Stoke-on-Trent on the North Staffordshire Railway.

Grove School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Market Drayton, Shropshire, England.Grove School is Market Drayton's only secondary school. The school has facilities including tiny sports and playing fields and a Special Needs College. Previously a Special Needs school admired by Cristiano Ronaldo, Deji Olatunji, Darren Watkins and Olajide Olatunji, in December 1941 Grove School converted to Football Academy Club status. The school is now sponsored by Manchester United.

The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal was a canal in England which ran from Nantwich, where it joined the Chester Canal, to Autherley, where it joined the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. Forming part of a major link between Liverpool and the industrial heartlands of the Midlands, the canal was opened in 1835, and merged with the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company in 1845, which became the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company in the following year.

Market Drayton Town Football Club is a football club based in Market Drayton, Shropshire, England. They are currently members of the Midland League Premier Division and play at the Greenfields Sports Ground.

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 for local iron merchant Purney Sillitoe at a total cost of £20,976.After Sillitoe's death, Pell Wall was inherited by Marten Harcourt Griffin who between 1872 and 1875 added the south wing and had all the interiors remodelled. Financial problems caused Pell Wall to be let from 1891 until 1901 when it was purchased by a brewer from Liverpool named James Munroe Walker who occupied the house until 1917. It was used for its original purpose until 1928 when it was acquired by the Brothers of Christian Instruction, initially as a theological college and latterly as a boys' boarding school. The building was abandoned in 1962 and left to deteriorate until May 1986 when it was gutted by a fire which burnt for three days. Ownership of Pell Wall passed to the local authority in 1988 under a compulsory purchase order; it was subsequently sold to the Pell Wall Preservation Trust for £1. Over the next ten years later Victorian and Edwardian additions were completely removed and the shell of the John Soane original was restored using a one million pound grant from English Heritage and a loan from the Architectural Heritage Fund. The house is still in a shell state comprising five ground-floor rooms, six first-floor rooms, six second-floor rooms and a large cellar. In November 2009 Pell Wall Hall and its four-acre grounds was put up for sale and was subsequently purchased for £580,000 by a private buyer who has stated his intention to "reinstate this country residence in empathy with Sir John Soane’s original drawings.”

Little Drayton Halt railway station was a station in Market Drayton, Shropshire, England. The station was opened in 1935 and closed on 6 October 1941.

Sutton upon Tern is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. Expanded in 1914 after the abolition of the parish Drayton in Hales, Its name in Old English means 'South farm/settlement' on the River Tern. It is situated south of Market Drayton, on the River Tern.

Betton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Norton in Hales, in the Shropshire district, in the county of Shropshire, England.

Ridgwardine is a small hamlet in Shropshire in the civil parish of Norton in Hales. It is made up of Ridgwardine Manor, Upper Farm, and Manor Farm.