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Shropshire town, 10 miles N of Shrewsbury.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830), the essayist and critic, spent much of his early life in Wem and lived with his parents in Noble Street.
The lawyer and writer John Bickerton Williams (1792-1855) retired from his practice in Shrewsbury in March 1841 and moved to The Hall, a Georgian house in New Street, Wem. He died here in October 1855 and was buried in the cemetery in Chapel Street.
John Ireland (died 1808), the biographer of Hogarth, was born and brought up at Trench Farm, which lies on a minor road nearly two miles south of Wem. William Wycherley (1640-1746), the great Restoration dramatist spent much of his childhood at this farm since it was part of his father's extensive property.
Adrian Done (1932- ) has recalled the Wem of his childhood in A view from the hill and other poems (2004).
Location map of Wem courtesy of Streetmap.co.uk
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18 September 2008
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