At Buildwas Junction ( now the site of Ironbridge Power Station near what is now Telford ) Severn Valley trains connected with services from Wellington to Much Wenlock and Craven Arms.

* The Wenlock Arms, public house in London, England

* Wenlock, Craven Arms and Lightmoor Extension railway, was a railway in Shropshire, England

The Wenlock Arms

The Wenlock Arms is a public house in London, which reopened on Friday 14 January 1994.

The Wenlock Arms first opened for business in 1836 and was operated by the nearby Wenlock Brewery as a " brewery tap ".

The Wenlock Arms features in the opening titles of the television show Al Murray's Compete for the Meat.

In September 2010, news emerged that the Wenlock Arms was planned to be demolished, and in response a campaign to save the pub was started.

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It is long and runs from southwest to northeast between Craven Arms and Much Wenlock.

* Craven Arms station to Wellington via Much Wenlock and a junction with the Severn Valley Railway at Buildwas.

The line to Lightmoor and beyond to Buildwas was constructed by the Wenlock, Craven Arms and Lightmoor Extension railway.

* The Wenlock Branch – Wellington to Craven Arms, Ken Jones, Oakwood Press 1998, ISBN 978-0-85361-500-2

Other towns are Broseley, Clun, Bishop's Castle, Cleobury Mortimer, Much Wenlock, Craven Arms and Church Stretton.

The Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man also after a line in " On Wenlock Edge " and Arthur C. Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman's More Poems.

* Wenlock Downs: This is a grassland area typical of the original bioscape of the Nilgiris.

It is a picnic spot and a film shooting spot on the slopes of the Wenlock Downs.

The living was endowed as a rectory when the parish was created from Madeley in 1847 and is now a united with Coalbrookdale and Little Wenlock, in the Diocese of Hereford.

It contains a myriad of rock types, and is widely regarded as the geological capital of the UK, with Wenlock Edge being especially highly regarded by geologists.

A part of the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, it was heavily mined for centuries because of its large limestone deposits, and is also the location of one of the largest fossil sites in England.

The town is served by buses to and from Telford, Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Much Wenlock, Ironbridge, Shifnal and Ludlow.

The location, Castle Hill, is an outcrop of Wenlock Group limestone that was extensively quarried during the Industrial Revolution, and which now along with Wren's Nest Hill is a Scheduled Ancient Monument as the best surviving remains of the limestone industry in Dudley.

Several have fireplaces aligned with windows and it is not unusual to find a double flue exiting out of the wall, generally with the exits aligned parallel to the prevailing wind to improve the updraft on a relatively short flue ( e. g. Upholland Windmill, Lancashire, where the fireplace is at second floor level ( First floor in British English ), and the doors and windows are aligned to the cardinal points of the compass ; or Much Wenlock windmill, Shropshire, which has double flues of uncertain purpose rising from the middle floor level.

Much Wenlock, earlier known as Wenlock, is a small town in central Shropshire, England.

Dr Brookes is credited as a founding father of the Modern Olympic Games, and the Olympic mascot for London 2012 is named Wenlock after the town.

The " Much " was added to the name to distinguish it from the nearby Little Wenlock, and signifies that it is the larger of the two settlements.

The name " Wenlock " as found in Much Wenlock and Little Wenlock ( and also Great Wenlock, a now obsolete name, but found in some historic sources ) is probably derived from the Old English * Wenan loca meaning " Wena's Stronghold " ( wéna being feminine and meaning " hope ").

The town is known for Wenlock Olympian Games set up by Dr William Penny Brookes in 1850.

The Olympic mascot for London 2012 is named Wenlock.

* Nearby is Wenlock Edge, an important geological feature.

* The London 2012 Summer Olympics mascot, Wenlock, is named after the town.

It took the existing Olympian Games of Much Wenlock as its example, thus the NOA Games " were open to all comers " and not just the products of Britain's public schools.

On 25 February 1850 the Wenlock Agricultural Reading Society resolved to establish a class called The Olympian Class-" for the promotion of the moral, physical and intellectual improvement of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Wenlock and especially of the working classes, by the encouragement of outdoor recreation, and by the award of prizes annually at public meetings for skill in athletic exercise and proficiency in intellectual and industrial attainments ".

At one year old, she moved with her parents to Much Wenlock, where they lived at a house called The Grange outside the town.

Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

XI: Telford, the Liberty & Borough of Wenlock ( part ), Bradford hundred, Victoria history of the counties of England, Oxford University Press ; London: Institute of Historical Research, ISBN 0-19-722763-5

On 30 May 2012, the Olympic flame of the London 2012 Summer Games, was paraded through Much Wenlock to acknowledge the founding footsteps of Brookes.

A borough of Wenlock existed until 1966 which, at its height, was the largest borough in England outside London and encompassed several of the towns that now constitute Telford.

* London 2012 torch relay bearers for Much Wenlock

* Wenlock Basin, canal basin, part of the Regent's Canal in the London Borough of Hackney

* Wenlock and Mandeville, are the official mascots for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics being held in London, United Kingdom.

When the New London Brewery, of Lambeth, London, went into voluntary liquidation on 13 January 1925, their licensed houses were bought by the Wenlock Brewery.

The Wenlock Basin, a canal basin, is part of the Regent's Canal in the London Borough of Hackney, just east of City Road Basin, on the other side of Wharf Road.

* Wenlock and Mandeville, mascots for the London 2012 Summer Olympics

The NOA came about mainly through the efforts of John Hulley of Liverpool ( Chairman ), Dr. William Penny Brookes ( of Much Wenlock ) and E G Ravenstein ( president of the German Gymnastic Society of London ).

One of the two mascots for the London 2012 Summer Olympics has been named Wenlock in honour of the Wenlock Olympian Games.

One of two mascots for the London 2012 Summer Olympics has been named Wenlock in honour of the Wenlock Olympian Games.