Cleobury Mortimer

Cleobury Mortimer
High Street and the Talbot Hotel
Cleobury Mortimer is located in Shropshire
Cleobury Mortimer
Cleobury Mortimer
Location within Shropshire
Population3,036 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSO675758
Civil parish
  • Cleobury Mortimer
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townKIDDERMINSTER
Postcode districtDY14
Dialling code01299
PoliceWest Mercia
FireShropshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Shropshire
52°22′43″N 2°28′56″W / 52.3785°N 2.4821°W / 52.3785; -2.4821

Cleobury Mortimer (/ˈklɪbri/, KLIH-bree)[2] is a market town and civil parish in south-east Shropshire, England, which had a population of 3,036 at the 2011 census. It was granted a market charter by King Henry III in 1226.[3]

  1. ^ "Town population 2011". Archived from the original on 25 November 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  2. ^ "Places in Shropshire that people just can't pronounce properly". Shropshire Star. Shrewsbury: MNA Media. 13 September 2016. p. 1. Archived from the original on 28 October 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  3. ^ Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinensi asservati, volume II, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1844, pp.103, 126, 198