Market Drayton occurs as market town in north Shropshire, England, on the River Tern, between Shrewsbury and Stoke-on-Trent. Erstwhile called "Drayton in Hales" (c. 1868) and earliest only when "Drayton" (c. 1695). A town is on the Shropshire Union Canal, and a National Cycle Route 75. A A53 road by-passes a town.

A town is, reportedly, 'a house of gingerbread', through its yearn association using a Billington Food Group's factory. There are as well presently local food manufacturing plant, making yogurt and meat pies.

the town is the residence of Tern Click, a extremely respected & collectible small press publisher of poetry.

Despite its little size & rural location, a town has forged successful links sustaining its twin towns of Arlon in Belgium and Pezenas in the south of France.

[http://www.muller.co.uk Müller Dairy] make their yoghurts here.

Sites

Of architectural interest come a several town-centre half-half-timber buildings that exist from either a 17th and 18th centuries. There is a sympathetically restored Norman church, [http://www.openchurchestrust.org.uk/MarketDrayton.htm St. Mary's], next to the Grammar School of 1558. A town's marketplace is ancient, by having the market charter from either 1246, and a market continues now.

Notable ancient local web sites include: Audley's Cross, Blore Heath, site of a major War of the Roses battle; and several neolithic standing stones, "The Devil's Ring and Finger", three miles from the town.

As much as 5 miles (Eighter from either decatur kilometre) from a town is Hawkstone Park – 100 acres (400,000 m²) of beautiful and tremendous follies and grounds built by Sir Rowland Hill and Sir Richard Hill – which was used to represent Narnia in the BBC's TV adaptation of C. S. Lewis's books.

Market Drayton can claim to exist as a virtually all central town within Engl& - in case 1 draws a rectangle good bouncing off a northerly, in a south, east and west extremities of the united states (including the Isles of Scilly), the central point lessens astir ii miles south of the town, touching Woodseaves.

People

Nearby is the birthplace of Robert Clive (first Lord Clive, "Clive of India", 1725–1774); his school desk can however become seen in the town's grammar school.

A town was a birthplace of pioneering lensman Samuel Bourne (b. 1834). He is famed for with spent captaaround hicks years in India from 1862 to 1869; there he founded a major studio, trekked into & photographed numerous of India's remotest wharehouses &, sustaining his printer Charles Shepherd, became the virtually all notable lensman of the Raj.

A British fascist Oswald Mosley was born nearby around 1896, at Betton Hall, although it seems he did not develop higher in the area.

Facilities

Market Drayton hosts modern Twenty-five metre indoor playing pool using an outdoor pool available in the summer. This facility has taken the place of a L metre lido.