Shrewsbury

Meanings

1. A large market town, the county town of Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4912).
2. A civil parish with a town council which includes the town in Shropshire, which partly replaced Shrewsbury and Atcham District when it was abolished in 2009.
3. A small hamlet in Chatham-Kent municipality, south-western Ontario, Canada.
4. A ghost town in Gore township, Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
5. A hamlet in Portland parish, Jamaica.
6. A number of places in the United States:
7. A declining rural unincorporated community in Grayson County, Kentucky.
8. A former unincorporated community in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; a suburb of New Orleans.
9. A sizable town in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
10. A city in St. Louis County, Missouri; an inner suburb of St. Louis.
11. A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, which has shrunk in size since 1693.
12. A borough in eastern Monmouth County, New Jersey, formed in 1926 from the township.

Etymology

From Old English Sċrobbesburh (literally “fort in the scrubland region”), from *sċrob (“shrub, scrub”) + burh. Compare Shropshire from Sċrobbesċīr, short form of Sċrobbesbyriġ sċīr (literally “shire of Shrewsbury”).