Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Market Drayton is a market town and electoral ward in the north of Shropshire, England, close to the Cheshire and Staffordshire borders. It is on the River Tern, and was formerly known as "Drayton in Hales" (c. 1868) and earlier simply as "Drayton" (c. 1695).

Market Drayton is on the Shropshire Union Canal and on Regional Cycle Route 75. The A53 road by-passes the town, which is between Shrewsbury and Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Industry In 1965, sausage maker Palethorpe's built a new factory employing 400 people in the town. Purchased by Northern Foods in 1990, the company was merged with Bowyers of Trowbridge, Wiltshire and Pork Farms of Nottingham to form Pork Farms Bowyers. The sausage brand was sold in 2001 to Kerry Group, but the factory remains open to this day as the town's largest employer. It produces various meat based and chilled food products, under both the Pork Farms brand and for third parties, including Asda.

Müller Dairy have a factory making yogurts. The town is also the home of Tern Press, a highly respected and collectible small press publisher of poetry. Image on Food also makes local gingerbread.

Recent developments in the local service industry include the retailers Argos, Wilko and B & M which have all brought new employment to the town. It is widely considered to be the "Home of Gingerbread".

Supplied by a water source running under the town, two breweries operated in the town during the early 20th century. In 2000, Steve Nuttall started a microbrewery, Joule's Brewery Ltd, a revival of a previous Joule's Brewery at Stone, Staffordshire which had been discontinued in 1974. The new company bought the 16th century Red Lion, a pub that formerly belonged to the earlier company, where the brewery was built, completed in 2010. It produces three core ales on the site as well as a number of seasonal beers.

Transport Arriva Midlands operates a local bus service to Shrewsbury, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Hanley (the whole route now service no. 64 ). Beginning on 7 September 2012 Bennett's Travel Cranberry Ltd run an evening service 164 to Hanley on Fridays and Saturdays with a day service to Newcastle-under-Lyme on Sunday. Arriva used to provide services 341/342 to Wellington from Monday to Saturday, but this was stopped in August 2016, due to the council withdrawing funds.

Shropshire Council ran a number of bus services under the 'ShropshireLink' brand in addition to the 301 and 302 Market Drayton Town Services but these were withdrawn due to council cutbacks. Services 301 and 302 are now operated by Bennett's Travel.

Market Drayton had a railway station which opened in 1863 and closed during the Beeching cuts in 1963. The railway station was located on the Wellington and Drayton Railway and Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway of the Great Western Railway network and was also the terminus of the Newcastle-under-Lyme line of the Stoke to Market Drayton Line of the North Staffordshire Railway network.

Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom 
<b>Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom</b>
Image: Roger Kidd

Market Drayton has a population of over 11,773 people. Market Drayton also forms part of the wider Shropshire County which has a population of over 498,073 people.

Twin Towns, Sister Cities Market Drayton has links with:

🇧🇪 Arlon, Belgium 🇫🇷 Pézenas, France
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Antipodal to Market Drayton is: 177.515,-52.904

Locations Near: Market Drayton -2.4848,52.9044

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stoke-on-Trent -2.183,53 d: 22.8  

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Shrewsbury -2.751,52.707 d: 28.4  

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stoke on Trent -2.175,53.03 d: 25  

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stafford -2.117,52.807 d: 27  

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Runcorn -2.733,53.333 d: 50.5  

Antipodal to: Market Drayton 177.515,-52.904

🇳🇿 Dunedin 170.474,-45.884 d: 19083.8  

🇳🇿 Christchurch 172.617,-43.517 d: 18910.6  

🇳🇿 Canterbury 171.58,-43.543 d: 18886.1  

🇳🇿 Invercargill 168.373,-46.413 d: 19039.8  

🇳🇿 Queenstown 168.658,-45.033 d: 18928.6  

🇳🇿 Wellington 174.767,-41.283 d: 18706.5  

🇳🇿 Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 18700.9  

🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 18700.9  

🇳🇿 Upper Hutt 175.05,-41.133 d: 18693.1  

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