Shifnal

Shifnal is a marketplace city and civil parish in Shropshire, England, approximately 5 km east of Telford. It has a railway station on the Shrewsbury-Wolverhampton Line and is close to the M54 motorway. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 6,391, growing to 6,776 on the 2011 census. With a big wide iety of on-going housing trends that is predicted to bypass 10,000 by way of 2020. The town, also once referred to as Idsall regarding capability Roman hyperlinks most in all likelihood commenced as an Anglian agreement, established by means of the end of the 7th century. Shifnal is thought to be the area named "Scuffanhalch" in a 9th-century charter, as a ownership of the monastery at Medeshamstede later Peterborough Abbey.

Three Though this appears a dubious claim, and the historic constitution is in truth a 12th-century forgery, the total picture is greater complex. Sir Frank Stenton taken into consideration that "Scuffanhalch", along side "Costesford" Cosford and "Stretford", shaped part of a listing of places which had as soon as been related with Medeshamstede; and the constitution purports to were issued by using King thelred of Mercia, for the duration of much of whose reign the bishop of Mercia was Sexwulf or Saxwulf, founder and primary abbot of Medeshamstede. The first part of the name "Shifnal" is reckoned to be a non-public name, "Scuffa", whilst the second one component, from "halh", manner a valley, for this reason describing the metropolis's topography.