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Shifnal is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Telford. It is near the M54 motorway (Junction 4). At the 2001 census, it had a population of 6,391, increasing to 6,776 at the 2011 census.
Public transport is provided by West Midlands Trains who call regularly at the town's railway station. Bus services are operated by Arriva Midlands and Banga Buses providing links to Telford, Wolverhampton and Bridgnorth.
Places of interest:
- Church of England: St Andrew's Church on Church Street has a Norman chancel with an Elizabethan double-hammerbeam roof and was almost certainly built on the site of an older Saxon church. Its churchyard contains war graves of 13 soldiers of the First World War and 4 of the Second World War, who are all commemorated by a Screen Wall memorial.
- Methodist: Trinity Church, Victoria Road
- Roman Catholic: St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury Road
- It also has, through Churches Together in Shifnal, its own Christian bookshop and drop-in centre, Oasis.
- A community library run by the council is located on Broadway.
- The Millennium Sensory Garden lies between St Andrew's Church and Innage Road and contains the town's war memorial. The garden is voluntarily maintained by a dedicated group of committee members and friends and obtained the Queen's Golden Jubilee Award 2003 and Green Pennant Award 2007/08.
- Shifnal Police Station, behind the library, was closed in 2013, but re-opened in August 2019 as a community cafe and gardens.
- The Park House Hotel, to the south of the town, is a major landmark in the town, and a venue for weddings and conferences. It was originally two separate late 17th century country houses on the edge of Shifnal. Shifnal Grammar School occupied one of the houses for some years from the 1850s. From the 1880s up to the 1950s it was the home of successive Shifnal doctors.
- Naughty Nell's public house, a restored 16th century coaching inn, originally known as the Unicorn, claims to have been the home of Nell Gwyn and her renowned bedchamber. It had been known by her name itself for some time. The building was sold in auction in 2011 and is now vacant and awaiting some works.
- The Jerningham Arms opposite, built in 1705 as a coaching inn, closed in the late 1990s/early 2000s and was turned into flats. The Royal George closed in 2015 and was converted into a Co-op supermarket. The Beehive, on Curriers Lane, closed in early 2017: its future is uncertain. The Bells pub on Church Street - which went through a rapid series of name changes in recent years from The Old Bell Inn, to Henri's then Number 12 Restaurant & Bar - re-opened in 2019 after a lengthy closure.
- The Anvil pub, on Aston Road, reopened in October 2018 after being bought and refurbished by Dudley-based Black Country Ales: shortly afterwards Seven on Broadway was refurbished and renamed The Crown & Anchor Inn.
- As pubs have struggled the centre of Shifnal has developed a growing cafe culture, with at least four cafe bars - Blue, No5, Latimers and Nan's - opening over the past few years.
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