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I used to keep Shropshire sheep. Renowned for being able to graze in a plantations and not damage the trees.
https://www.shropshire-sheep.co.uk/
My brother in law lives in a boat on that canal. But he’s fine. But his job renting out boats is at risk ifv they don’t fix it
I thought I spent the weekend in Shrewsbury and Church Stretton. It seems like I'm wrong... Has my memory been wiped?
I used to keep Shropshire sheep. Renowned for being able to graze in a plantations and not damage the trees.
Shropshire sheep were first identified as a separate breed in the 1870s at the Castilla Stuarta dairy in the Basque Country, Spain by Andrixiu Williamoso, a sheep farmer who had trained in the breeding of sheep in Switzerland. The breed was first known as the 'Swiss mountain sheep' or 'Basque sheep', but was eventually marketed as 'Shropshire sheep', a "regal-sounding" name chosen to help increase its popularity, despite it having no link to the county of Shropshire.
The ‘sink hole’ is where our world connects with there’s
Through some kind of salopian tube?
I thought Shropshire was behind the Nationwide at Swindon. Along with everywhere else in the Universe.
You do realise that, if anyone ever actually discovers what truly lies behind the Nationwide, all life as you know it will stop instantaneously and every molecule in your body will explode at the speed of light. Total protonic reversal.
YMMV 🤷🏼♂️
Sorry. I'm sure I've seen it on old maps. But yeah, I think Salop means the same as Shropshire.
Salop has its etymological roots in the word "slop" named for the viscous mud.
It's also where salopettes were invented to protect agricultural workers from slop in the fields.
Agricultural workers also wear large waterproof coats to top the ensemble and have over-developed leg muscles from walking through slop.
It's thought that the wet-weather appearance of those agricultural workers inspired the menu item, big mac and large thighs
"ball recovery at the Gay Meadow?"
Is this still football chat.......? 🤔
Fife and Angus have entered the chat.
"ball recovery at the Gay Meadow?"
Is this still football chat.......? 🤔
Back in the day when Shrewsbury Town played at the Gay Meadow, when a ball was houghed out of the ground in to the River Severn an old bloke with his Coracle used to go and recover the ball. Tricky business I imagine as those casers were heavy when sodden!
Assuming, of course, Shrewsbury is not the County Town of somewhere that doesn't exist. Some of this thread is quite Douglas Adams'esque.
Some of this thread is quite Douglas Adams'esque.
As a resident of the county since 1969, I am very much enjoying the above nonsense which neatly proves the futility of my non-existence.
BBC 1, 8pm, tonight.
Paddy McG and Cherry Healey tour a secret facility mass-producing ginger replicants (shhhh, but it's in Mkt Drayton)
My wife is a proud Salopian. She’s also proud of the fact that one of her eyes is almost evenly divided into two colours.
It should come as no surprise that the geomorphological landforms in Shropshire are somewhat iffy too.....
When did you ever see any product or business from Shropshire?
Sheep
Invisiframe
Pearce Cycles
Muller yoghurt
Coal
Iron
The Industrial Revolution
more sheep.
Clackmannanshire waves from the north
Yes but do you know anyone who has been to its shire?
There are no famous people or teams or businesses from Shropshire.
People
Charles Darwin
Thomas Telford
Michael Palin
Wilfred Owen
Robert Clive (of India)
Greg Davies
Percy Thrower
Jeremy Corbyn
Businesses (with a focus on bikes and beer)!
J-Tech mtb suspension
Islabikes
And as already pointed out by Nic above: Pearce Cycles; Invisiframe
Hobsons brewery
Ludlow brewery
Joules brewery
Three Tuns brewery
MTB spots (*those with official XC trails and/or DH runs)
Mortimer Forest
Bringewood*
Bucknell*
Eastridge*
Hopton*
Wyre Forest
Wrekin
Long Mynd
Stiperstones
Brown Clee
Titterstone Clee
The Marcher Castles Way CUK bikepacking route
I'm quite chuffed it doesn't exist, means you lot can't come and lower the tone!
As a proud Yorkshire man I now live in Shropshire.
Long live the fact no bugger has heard of the place. (Shropshire)
Famous people
Boris Johnson hangs about locally
Princess Di’s Body Guard lives around the corner from us
JFK used to go for horse rides in our local area that ended up in our local pub
The Athertons were brought up near us, Gee used to cycle past my house.
Nowhere is perfect
Yeah I know I believe the link is one of his many kids
Forgot - World Cup DH champ Matt Walker is local too
JFK used to go for horse rides in our local area that ended up in our local pub
Now it all makes sense. It's a secret area for stashing people who can't be seen in public any more.
Shropshire doesn't exist, it's just a cheese dream, and if it did, then it sounds like I definitely don't live round the corner from Funkydunc and there are no trails here, none, you hear, none... although if you catch the moon right when the canal is at high tide, the shire will lead you to the gates of dragons sack...it's a cheese dream I tell ya..
^ top of the class.
Welshfarmer's observation of the contour line at Maesbury reminded me of this, which is also not in the fake county. Must be something in the water supply around these parts.
I had a lovely holiday in Clun and can confirm that Shropshire doesn’t exist.
I clearly remember the winter of ‘81/82
That’s nothing! I remember walking to school in the winter of ‘62/63; I was the first boy in my school to start wearing long trousers, it started snowing Boxing Day and didn’t start melting until March.
The snow down here in North Wiltshire in ‘81/82 was fairly bad, but nothing like twenty years prior - I was driving backwards and forwards to Basingstoke from Chippenham several times a week to see my then g/f, the snow was about as high as my car roof, but once a snowplough went through it was perfectly drivable.
Sometimes I had a mate with me who was also seeing a nurse at the same college, and on the way back in the early hours I pulled off the road near Avebury, turned the lights out and got out of the car, and we stood and watched aurora in the sky for about ten minutes!
Has my memory been wiped?
I once lost three months of my memory by attempting a ride in Shropshire. I was told it was a crash… but now I’m wondering…
Rutland?
Anyway, I have been to Shropshire many times and can confirm that I think that it exists. Perhaps.
Ironbridge occasionally enters our realm, then it is purged with water and taken back.
There are two hills known as Caer Caradoc in Shropshire.
From the top of one you can see the other and vice versa . Maybe.
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.