Shrewsbury Detectives have been operating in Shrewsbury and the West Midlands for almost 20 years.
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Shrewsbury's Castle, a red sandstone castle fortification, and Shrewsbury,s Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery, were founded in 1074 and 1083 respectively.
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Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, in the West Midlands region of England.
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Lying on the River Severn, Shrewsbury is a civil parish home to 70,689 inhabitants.
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Shrewsbury is the primary settlement and headquarters of Shropshire Council.
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Consequently, it is the second largest town in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, after Telford.
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Shrewsbury is a historic market town with the town centre having a largely unaltered medieval street plan.
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Shrewsbury features over 660 historic listed buildings, including several examples of timber framing from the 15th and 16th century.
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Shrewsbury hosts one of the oldest and largest horticultural events in the country.
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Shrewsbury serves as a cultural and commercial centre for the ceremonial county and a large area of mid-Wales.
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Shrewsbury is known as a town with significant medieval heritage, having been founded ca. 800 AD.
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Shrewsbury has also played a part in Western intellectual history, by being the town in which the naturalist Charles Darwin was born and raised.
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Nearby is the village of Wroxeter, 5 miles (8 km) to the south-west.
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Shrewsbury won the West Midlands Capital of Enterprise award in 2004.
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Shrewsbury is the administrative centre for the new Shropshire Council.
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Shrewsbury is twinned with Zutphen in The Netherlands.
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Shrewsbury also serves as the administrative headquarters of the British Army's 5th Division.
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