Shrewsbury
About Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is sited on the River Severn, 33 miles (53 km) northwest of Wolverhampton, 15 miles (24 km) west of Telford, 31 miles (50 km) southeast of Wrexham and 53 miles (85 km) north of Hereford. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 76,782. It is the county town of the ceremonial county of Shropshire.
On the show — 8 mentions total
John Mitton was a 19th century aristocrat and he was extremely eccentric in a lot of ways. Everyone in his family got elected MP for Shrewsbury — it was just the thing he did.
from 59: No Such Thing As Old Mother Bastard, 2015-05-01 at 00:40:56 · read transcript
Other times Shrewsbury came up
They named it after the novel and then the author Charles Kingsley got very annoyed that they had done so because they hadn't actually asked permission. It was just to get tourists in. OK, thanks for that, Andy. James, what was your answer? My answer to the question, why did Mad Jack give everyone in Shrewsbury £10? This was in 1819. He wanted to become an MP and so he bribed everyone in the town £10 and they all voted for him and he became an MP. That's very clever.
NSTAAF International Factball: Belgium v Algeria, 2014-06-16 · listen
Oh, lovely name. Yeah. We got an audience fact sent in about this recently, actually. I really like this. This is from someone, this is from Neal from Shrewsbury. Thank you, Neil. I love this. For 500 years, if you wanted to get a Master of Arts degree from Oxford University, you had to swear an oath that you would never be reconciled with Henry Simeonis. Nobody knows or knew at the time who Henry Simeonis was, but you had to swear, swear on your life, you would never make up with him, never settle the argument.
No Such Thing As A Punk Monk, 2025-06-19 · listen
This would explain why he knows about court cases from the late 20s. That's true. He sent me a few different articles. One, for instance, was an article entitled Extraordinary Belief in Shrewsbury. It was an 1928 report about this person in Shrewsbury who thought they'd seen a crime, but they thought they couldn't really be sure that they'd definitely seen it because it was through a window. He sent me some others.
No Such Thing As Death By Conga, 2017-11-25 · listen
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