Yes but do you know anyone who has been to its shire?
I cycled through it once.
*Makes a catholic cross symbol*
Some of my family lived in Telford when I was a child. I've very hazy memories of great gran dressed in her bonnet muttering in Welsh (we now think combined with Irish Gaelic) and rocking quietly on her chair with a couple of Corgi dogs on her lap...or was that a scene from a horror film..?
Yes but do you know anyone who has been to its shire?
Any fifer going west to stirling?
Infact. When the forth road bridge was kaput coming from parts of fife the journey was.
Fife
Perth and kinross
Clackananshire
Fife again
Falkirk
West lothian.
It doesn't exist according to my wife - apparently it's called Sher-rop-shire......
Something to do with not being able to have 'ro' following 'Sh'....
But she's from Jersey and speaks funny.....
It's a bit like the Shire in Lord of the Rings - with Telford (mainly Madeley, Stirchley, Brookside, and Great Dawley) being the equivalent of Mordor.....
Most of my side of the family do or have lived somewhere in the 'Shire at some point - I even survived some of my childhood on Woodside before emigrating back to Birmingham.......
I may not have been to the Shrop in Shropshire, but I have definitely been stuck in the Rut of Rutland
You lost me at 'The Guardian...'. But I do live in Shropshire. 😉
........more fake news.......
https://singletrackworld.com/2025/12/outta-the-archive-shropshire-route-guide-from-2007/
Allegedly, it’s a small, rural county, with some interesting nooks and crannies. I don’t believe it myself.
I saw Oswestry once. Apparently it appears for one day every 100 years.