North Shropshire

52°51′22″N 2°43′23″W / 52.856°N 2.723°W / 52.856; -2.723

North Shropshire District
North Shropshire
Shown within Shropshire non-metropolitan county
History
 • OriginMarket Drayton Rural District
North Shropshire Rural District
 • Created1 April 1974
 • Abolished31 March 2009
 • Succeeded byShropshire
StatusDistrict
ONS code39UC
GovernmentNorth Shropshire District Council
 • HQWem

North Shropshire was a local government district in Shropshire, England from 1974 to 2009. The district council was based at Edinburgh House in Wem. Other settlements included the towns of Ellesmere, Market Drayton and Whitchurch, as well as the large villages of Shawbury and Baschurch. The district bordered onto Wales, Cheshire and Staffordshire as well as the Shropshire districts of Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Atcham and the unitary Telford and Wrekin.