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 []

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