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Shropshire town, 7 miles SW of Much Wenlock.
Ancient and spectacular town on the River Severn
Richard Baxter (1615-1691) was an assistant minister at St. Leonard's Church in 1640 and lived in a tiny half-timbered cottage in the delightful church close.
Robert William Eyton (1815-1881) was educated at Bridgnorth Grammar School.
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (1860-1929) set her novel Beauty and bands (1920) here. She calls it Northbridge.
Edward Hall or Halle (1499?-1547) was M.P. for the town in 1542.
William MacMichael (died 1839) was born in the town and educated at the Grammar School.
Francis Moore (1657-1715) of Old Moore's Almanac fame was thought to have been born in one of Bridgnorth's many cave dwellings, possibly near St. Mary's Steps.
Thomas Percy (1729-1811) was born in what is now the oldest house in Bridgnorth at the bottom of the Cartway and was educated at the Grammar School.
Frances Pitt (1884-1964), the naturalist, writer and photographer,was born at Oldbury Grange.
Mary Martha Sherwood (1775-1851), prolific author of moral tales for children, lived at a house in the High Street from 1795 until her marriage in 1803.
P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) probably based his fictional town of Bridgeford on Bridgnorth.
Location map of Bridgnorth courtesy of Streetmap.co.uk
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8 October 2002
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