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Shropshire town, 12 miles NW of Wolverhampton.
The bibliographer Beriah Botfield (1807-1863) lived at nearby Decker Hall.
The satirist Thomas Brown (1663-1704) may have been born in the town.
Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920), better known as Mrs. Humphrey Ward, spent three or four less than idyllic years in Shifnal as a pupil at the Rock Terrace School For Young Ladies.
P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) knew this part of the county well and it seems likely that Shifnal was the place he had in mind for his fictional Market Blandings.
Location map of Shifnal courtesy of Streetmap.co.uk
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8 October 2002
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