Country: | England |
Static Image Name: | Meadowtown Hall - geograph.org.uk - 654250.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Meadowtown Hall |
Coordinates: | 52.604°N -3.018°W |
Official Name: | Meadowtown |
Civil Parish: | Worthen with Shelve |
Unitary England: | Shropshire |
Lieutenancy England: | Shropshire |
Region: | West Midlands |
Constituency Westminster: | Ludlow |
Post Town: | SHREWSBURY |
Postcode District: | SY5 |
Postcode Area: | SY |
Dial Code: | 01743 |
Os Grid Reference: | SJ310012 |
Meadowtown is a hamlet in west Shropshire, England,[1] in the civil parish of Worthen with Shelve. Neighbouring hamlets include Marton, Ox Wood, Crest Wood, and Rorrington.Meadowtown contains a Site of Special Scientific Interest according to the U.K. government. A long-disused quarry in the hamlet is "a well known fossil collecting locality and has yielded typical and distinctive trilobites including Oxygiocarella debuchi, Marrolithus craticulatus, Lloydolithus lloydii and Oxyginus cordensis novenarius. Species of the brachiopod genusDalmanella and occasional sponge spicules also occur."[2]
Meadowtown is also home to "Mammoth", a cow made famous on the internet involving a UK milk-price dispute in 2017.[3]