Clive, Shropshire

Clive
All Saints Church, Clive
Clive is located in Shropshire
Clive
Clive
Location within Shropshire
Population530 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSJ514239
Civil parish
  • Clive
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSHREWSBURY
Postcode districtSY4
Dialling code01939
PoliceWest Mercia
FireShropshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
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52°48′40″N 2°43′16″W / 52.811°N 2.721°W / 52.811; -2.721

Clive is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, United Kingdom.

Clive is situated around the west side of Grinshill Hill. Grinshill sandstone, from the nearby quarry at Grinshill is used throughout the village for building material from walls and houses to the village church.

The English Restoration dramatist William Wycherley was born at Clive.[2]

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  2. ^ Bennett, Kate (2004). "Wycherley, William (bap. 1641, d. 1716)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30120. Retrieved 4 August 2015. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)