Shropshire Close SP2

Shropshire Close is named after the county of Shropshire.

Salop, Shrewsbury, and presumably Shropshire all seem to be rooted in an old word meaning “Scrub”¹.

One of the things for which Shropshire is famous is A.E. Houseman’s poem, A Shropshire Lad

Footnotes

1. Online Etymology Dictionary [↩]