Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire in the United Kingdom, founded c. 800. A number of people, places and other locations have their names deriving from this original place.

People

  • Earl of Shrewsbury, in the peerage of England
  • Arthur Shrewsbury (1856–1903), English cricketer
  • Arthur Shrewsbury (cricketer, born 1874), English cricketer
  • Henry L. Shrewsbury (born ), American politician
  • Ralph of Shrewsbury (died 1363), English bishop
  • Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473–), son of King Edward IV
  • Robert of Shrewsbury (died 1212), English cleric and judge
  • Robert of Shrewsbury (abbot) (died 1168), abbot of Shrewsbury Abbey
  • Tom Shrewsbury (born 1995), English cricketer
  • William Shrewsbury (1795-1866), British Methodist minister
  • William Shrewsbury (cricketer) (1854–1931), English cricketer

Places

Australia

  • Shrewsbury Rock, Queensland

Canada

  • Shrewsbury, Ontario
  • Shrewsbury, Quebec

Ireland

  • Shrewsbury Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin

Jamaica

  • Shrewsbury, Portland, a town in Portland Parish

United States

  • Shrewsbury, Kentucky
  • Shrewsbury, Louisiana
  • Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
  • Shrewsbury, Missouri
  • Shrewsbury, New Jersey
  • Shrewsbury Township, New Jersey
  • Shrewsbury, Upper Freehold, New Jersey
  • Shrewsbury Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
  • Shrewsbury Township, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania
  • Shrewsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania
  • Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania, a Borough
  • Shrewsbury, Vermont
  • Shrewsbury, West Virginia
  • Shrewsbury River, a tributary of the Navesink River in New Jersey

Thailand

  • Shrewsbury International School

Ships

  • HMS Shrewsbury, the name of various ships of the British Royal Navy
  • USS Shrewsbury (SP-70), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919

Associated with Shrewsbury, England

  • Battle of Shrewsbury (1403)
  • Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
  • Shrewsbury Abbey
  • Shrewsbury railway station
  • Shrewsbury Abbey railway station, closed 1960
  • Shrewsbury School
  • Shrewsbury Town F.C.
  • Shrewsbury and Atcham, former district
  • Shrewsbury and Atcham (UK Parliament constituency)
  • Shrewsbury, an 1897 novel by Stanley J. Weyman

Other uses

  • Shrewsbury cake
  • Shrewsbury House, Vicars' Close, Wells, Somerset England