Bishop's Castle (UK Parliament constituency)

Bishop's Castle
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
BoroughBishop's Castle
1290–1832
Seats2
Replaced bySouth Shropshire

Bishop's Castle was a borough constituency in Shropshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The market town of Bishop's Castle became a parliamentary borough in 1584 and was a constituency of the House of Commons of England until 1707, of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two burgesses.

The historian Lewis Namier claimed that in the middle of the eighteenth century it was the one notoriously corrupt parliamentary borough in Shropshire.[1] It was abolished under the Reform Act 1832.

  1. ^ Namier, Lewis (1957). The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (2nd ed.). London: St Martin's Press. p. 245.