Shrewsbury SHROHZ-bree, also SHROOZ-bree) is a market town and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, 150 miles north-west of London; at the 2011 census, it had a population of 71,715.
The town centre has a largely unspoilt medieval street plan and over 660 listed buildings, including several examples of timber framing from the 15th and 16th centuries. Shrewsbury Castle, a red sandstone fortification, and Shrewsbury Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery, were founded in 1074 and 1083 respectively by the Norman Earl of Shrewsbury, Roger de Montgomery. The town is the birthplace of Charles Darwin and is where he spent 27 years of his life.
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