Editing Shropshire (section)

== Culture and cultural references ==
=== Literature and legends ===
In the High Medieval period the Shropshire area influenced important poetry: the poet [[William Langland]], writer of [[Piers Plowman]], was born in [[Cleobury Mortimer]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Langland |first=William |editor-first1=Charles W. |editor-first2=Edward T. |editor-last1=Dunn |editor-last2=Byrnes |chapter=Piers Plowman: (1372–79, Southwestern) |date=1990 |chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315799209-35/piers-plowman-william-langland |title=Middle English Literature |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781315799209 |isbn=978-1-315-79920-9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kaske |first=R. E. |date=1968 |title=Piers Plowman and Local Iconography |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/750639 |journal=Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes |volume=31 |pages=159–169 |doi=10.2307/750639 |jstor=750639 |s2cid=195050251 |issn=0075-4390}}</ref> and the 14th-century alliterative poem [[St. Erkenwald (poem)|St Erkenwald]]<ref name="Austin">{{Cite web |last=Austin |first=Sue |date=23 February 2024 |title=Shropshire Day: Natural beauty and culture help county celebrate its own patron saint's day |url=https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2024/02/23/reasons-why-shropshire-should-celebrate-its-very-own-day-named-after-the-countys-patron-saint/ |access-date=23 February 2024 |website=www.shropshirestar.com |language=en}}</ref> is written in a local dialect.<ref>''Saint Erkenwald'', edited by Clifford Peterson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977), pp. 23–6.</ref><ref>Friedrich Knigge, ''Die Sprache des Dichters von "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", der sogenannten "Early English Alliterative Poems"", und de "Erkenwalde"'' (Marburg: Elwert, 1885), pp. 118–20.</ref><ref>''Saint Erkenwald'', edited by Clifford Peterson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977), pp. 23–4.</ref> The only copy of the ancient poem 'Life and Death'<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collection: List of contents of the Percy Folio (of English poetry), now BL, Add. MS. 27879, headed and annotated in Thomas Percy's hand {{!}} Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts |url=https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/3986 |access-date=9 July 2023 |website=archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk}}</ref> was also found in Shropshire.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Celia Cummiskey, Erin McGarvey, Isaac Normesinu, and Celia Smithmier |first=Boston College |title=MIDDLE ENGLISH ALLITERATIVE POETRY |url=https://mediakron.bc.edu/alliterativepoetry/death-and-liffe/poems}}</ref>

In this period the county was also associated in divers places and ways with Arthurian legends, for instance at Hawkstone, where there is a legend that one of the caves of Hawkstone Park was the burial ground of [[King Arthur]],<ref>{{cite news |title=BBC Shropshire |date=13 August 2009 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/shropshire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8199000/8199441.stm |accessdate=2 May 2012}}</ref> and the Arthurian story of the giants Tarquin and Tarquinus<ref>{{Cite web |title=Heritage Gateway - Results |url=https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MSA851&resourceID=1015 |access-date=12 April 2023 |website=www.heritagegateway.org.uk}}</ref> is located, or [[Whittington Castle]] and linked to the Holy Grail since the 13th century.<ref>{{Cite web |title=EBK: The Marian Chalice |url=http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/arthur/marian.html |access-date=9 July 2023 |website=www.earlybritishkingdoms.com}}</ref> [[Old Oswestry]] has been identified as a possible home of Guinevere.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 September 2019 |title=Hidden Oswestry: Glyndwr's last war of independence |url=https://www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk/news/17903920.hidden-oswestry-glyndwrs-last-war-independence/ |access-date=23 July 2023 |website=Border Counties Advertizer |language=en}}</ref> [[Ludlow Castle]] site features heavily in the folk-story of [[Fulk FitzWarin]], outlawed Lord of [[Whittington, Shropshire]] and a possible inspiration for the ''[[Robin Hood]]'' legend.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morris |first=Mark |date=22 October 2022 |title=A Whittington Castle legend: Was the real life Robin Hood from Shropshire? |url=https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/oswestry/2022/10/22/a-whittington-castle-legend-was-the-real-life-robin-hood-from-shropshire/ |access-date=9 July 2023 |website=www.shropshirestar.com |language=en}}</ref>

[[File:Map Showing the Territory of the Forest of Arden.jpg|alt=map showing the Roman roads bounding the old Forest of Arden|thumb|Parts of Shropshire in the ancient Forest of Arden]]

Parts of Shropshire are inside the ancient [[Arden, Warwickshire|Forest of Arden]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Radio Shropshire - Listen Live - BBC Sounds |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_shropshire |access-date=14 December 2023 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref> which was the part if the [[English Midlands]], that in antiquity and into the Early Modern Period was bounded by the Roman roads including to the North by the [[Watling Street]] and to the west by Wales. This forest was the Setting of Shakespeare's ''[[As You Like It]],''<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 February 2012 |title=Forest of Arden |url=http://hearteng.110mb.com/arden.htm |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208130648/http://hearteng.110mb.com/arden.htm |archive-date=8 February 2012 |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=PRESS MENTION: Shakespeare in Shropshire |url=https://byrga.co.uk/press-mention-shakespeare-in-shropshire |access-date=20 November 2023 |website=BYRGA GENIHT {{!}} Country House Consultancy |language=en}}</ref> and that play is acknowledged to potentially be a cultural monument to [[Rowland Hill (MP)|Sir Rowland Hill]], a prominent Tudor statesman and publisher of the [[Geneva Bible]] from the county.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Austin |first=Sue |date=29 January 2024 |title=Shakespeare's links with Shropshire unveiled - when and where you can hear about them |url=https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/north-shropshire/wem/2024/01/29/london-lecture-comes-to-shropshire-as-links-between-shakespeare-and-the-county-are-unveiled/ |access-date=30 January 2024 |website=www.shropshirestar.com |language=en}}</ref>

Shropshire was the original seat of prominence of the Cotton family who held the [[Cotton library|Cotton Library]] before it was taken to found the British Library.<ref>{{Cite web |title=COTTON, Rowland (1581-1634), of Crooked Lane, London; later of Alkington Hall, Whitchurch and Bellaport Hall, Norton-in-Hales, Salop {{!}} History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/cotton-rowland-1581-1634 |access-date=21 November 2023 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}</ref>

[[Shrewsbury Abbey]] features in ''[[The Cadfael Chronicles]]''; [[Brother Cadfael]] is a member of the community at the Abbey.<ref>Cadfael Literature/ITV.com Cadfael Classic TV Profile {{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.itv.com/ClassicTVshows/crime/Cadfael/default.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822143315/http://www.itv.com/ClassicTVshows/crime/Cadfael/default.html |archive-date=22 August 2008 |access-date=21 August 2008}}</ref>

The poet [[A. E. Housman]] used Shropshire as the setting for many of the poems in his first book, ''[[A Shropshire Lad]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Shropshire Lad {{!}} The Housman Society |url=https://www.housman-society.co.uk/a-shropshire-lad/ |access-date=9 July 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> Moreover, many of [[Malcolm Saville]]'s children's books are set in Shropshire. Additionally, [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s novella, ''St. Mawr'', is partially set in the Stiperstones area of [[South Shropshire]].<ref name="Dickins">{{cite book |last=Dickins |first=Gordon |title=An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire |publisher=Shropshire Libraries |year=1987 |isbn=0-903802-37-6 |page=116}}</ref>

[[File:Mary Webb statue, Shrewsbury.jpg|thumb|Mary Webb is remembered with a bust in Shrewsbury.]]

The early 20th century novelist and poet [[Mary Webb]] was born in Shropshire and lived most of her life there, and all her novels are set there, most notably ''[[Precious Bane]]'', with its powerful evocation of the Shropshire countryside.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/mary-webb/precious-bane/9780349015644/ |title=Precious Bane |date=8 January 2021 |isbn=978-0-349-01564-4 |language=en-US |last1=Webb |first1=Mary |publisher=Little, Brown Book Group Limited}}</ref> A [[Mary Webb School|school]] in [[Pontesbury]] bears her name.

Shropshire is widely believed to have been an influence for [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s landscape of [[the Shire]] in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. Specifically, the Wrekin (as The Lonely Mountain) and Ellesmere (as Laketown) are said to have inspired the English fantasy writer.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bates |first=Isabelle |date=30 July 2021 |title=10 things you know if you're from Shropshire |url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/10-things-you-know-youre-21086666 |access-date=22 October 2023 |website=Birmingham Live |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=16 October 2023 |title=The Wrekin |url=https://www.shropshireandbeyond.com/photos/shropshire-hills/the-wrekin |access-date=22 October 2023 |website=Shropshire and Beyond |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Wrekin |url=https://www.thesweeneyhotel.com/things-to-do/the-wrekin/ |access-date=22 October 2023 |website=The Sweeney Hotel |language=en-GB |archive-date=27 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027162043/https://www.thesweeneyhotel.com/things-to-do/the-wrekin/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Morris |first=Steven |date=30 December 2004 |title=Battle over inspiration for Middle Earth |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/dec/30/lordoftheringsfilms.books |access-date=22 October 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In [[Susanna Clarke]]'s ''[[Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell]]'' (2004), Jonathan Strange is from the county, and some parts of the book are set there. Another fictional character from Shropshire is Mr Grindley, from [[Charles Dickens]]' ''Bleak House''.

[[P. G. Wodehouse]]'s fictional [[Blandings Castle]], the ancestral home of [[Lord Emsworth]], is located in Shropshire.<ref name="Wodehouse 1977 195">{{cite book |last=Wodehouse |first=Pelham Grenville |title=Sunset at Blandings |author2=appendices by Richard Usborne |author3=ill. by Ionicus |publisher=Chatto & Windus |year=1977 |isbn=0701122374 |location=London |pages=195}}</ref> Also from Shropshire is [[Psmith]], a fictional character in a series of Wodehouse's novels.

In [[Oscar Wilde]]'s ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'', Algernon attempts to trick Jack into revealing the location of his country home by inferring he resides in Shropshire.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Foster |first=Richard |date=1956 |title=Wilde as Parodist: A Second Look at the Importance of Being Earnest |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/372764 |journal=College English |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=18–23 |doi=10.2307/372764 |jstor=372764 |issn=0010-0994}}</ref>

The 1856 [[Anti-Tom literature|plantation literature]] novel ''[[White Acre vs. Black Acre]]'' by William M. Burwell features two Shropshire farms acting as an allegory for [[Slavery in the United States|American slavery]] – "White Acre Farm" being the [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]] Northern United States, and "Black Acre Farm" being the slaveholding Southern United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Burwell's White Acre vs. Black Acre |url=http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/proslav/burwellhp.html#:~:text=The%20view%20the%20narrative%20takes,names%20like%20Careless%20and%20Sneakright. |access-date=9 July 2023 |website=utc.iath.virginia.edu}}</ref>

The angel [[Aziraphale]], a principal character in ''[[Good Omens]]'', was credited with designing Shropshire by [[Terry Pratchett]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman |title=Buy Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch |date=28 November 2006 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=978-0060853983}}</ref>

In the novel ''[[Howards End]]'', Mr. Wilcox's daughter gets married in Shropshire. Part of the novel is set near [[Clun]].<ref>''An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire'', pp.31-32, 94.</ref>

=== Theology ===

Shropshire was the native county and rural seat of power of [[Rowland Hill (MP)|Sir Rowland Hill]], who coordinated and published the 1560 [[Geneva Bible]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Besant |first=Sir Walter |title=London in the Time of the Tudors |publisher=Adam and Charles Black |year=1904}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JXjrtAFaf9oC&q=%22rowland+hill%22&pg=PP51 |title=A New Family Bible, and Improved Version ... With Notes, Critical and Explanatory ... By the Rev. B. Boothroyd |date=1824 |publisher=The author |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Subscription |publisher=[[Boston Daily Globe]] |location=[[Boston]] |date=12 April 1886 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-daily-globe-apr-12-1886-p-2/ |access-date=24 July 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=[[Ancestry.com|Newspapers]] |language=en}}</ref> This important Bible was the senior Bible of English Protestantism for the early decades of the [[Elizabethan Religious Settlement]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ackroyd |first1=Peter |title=Shakespeare: The Biography |date=2006 |publisher=Anchor Books |isbn=978-1400075980 |edition=First Anchor Books |page=54}}</ref>

=== Drama ===
[[File:Shoe_makers_arbour_Shrewsbury.jpg|thumb|A surviving 1679 arbour in Shrewsbury (that of the Shoemakers Guild). Originally there were many of these for pageantry and performance in Kingsland.]]

Prior to the [[Reformation]], there are accounts of major festivals in the county.<ref name="upload.wikimedia.org">{{cite web|url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/The_Beauties_of_England_and_Wales%2C_or%2C_Delineations%2C_topographical%2C_historical%2C_and_descriptive%2C_of_each_county_%28IA_beautiesofenglan1301brit%29.pdf |access-date=26 August 2023|title=Delineations}}</ref> The "first flowerings of English drama" in the Tudor period are considered to be in the town, according to the 18th century [[Poet laureate]] and scholar [[Thomas Warton]]. [[Whitsun]]tide and mystery plays were performed in the founding years of [[Shrewsbury School]] under [[Thomas Ashton (schoolmaster)|Thomas Ashton]]; they attracted the attention of [[Elizabeth I|Queen Elizabeth I]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Behind the Scenes: Shrewsbury School |url=https://www.independentschoolparent.com/school/shrewsbury-school |access-date=23 July 2023 |website=www.independentschoolparent.com |language=en}}</ref> Later this was expressed in the many arbours built in Shrewsbury for that town's particular tradition of pageantry and performance.<ref name="upload.wikimedia.org"/>

==== Shakespeare ====
[[File:Henry Percy Hotspur (1364or1366–1403).png|thumb|The last two acts of ''Henry IV, Part I'' are set in the county.]]

[[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] memorialised the [[Battle of Shrewsbury]] in ''[[Henry IV, Part 1]]'', in Acts IV (Scenes and 3){{clarification needed|date=March 2025}} and V (Scenes 1–5).<ref>{{Folger inline|Henry IV, Part 1|5|2}}</ref> The arrest of [[Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham|Buckingham]] referred to in ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]'' (Act IV, scene iv) happened near Wem.<ref>[[Buckingham's rebellion#chrimes|Chrimes, Henry VII]] p.25 n. 5</ref> Ludlow castle is also referred to in the same play (Act II, scene ii).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Richard III: Entire Play |url=http://shakespeare.mit.edu/richardiii/full.html |access-date=23 July 2023 |website=shakespeare.mit.edu}}</ref> There is a tradition that the Stanley monuments in [[St Bartholomew's Church, Tong]] are the work of Shakespeare.<ref>{{Cite web |title=St Bartholomew's Church – Tong, Shropshire – A rural Parish Church serving its local community |url=https://tong-church.org.uk/ |access-date=23 July 2023 |website=tong-church.org.uk}}</ref>

==== Other playwrights ====
[[William Wycherley]] was born at [[Clive, Shropshire|Clive]] near Shrewsbury, although his birthplace has been said to be Trench Farm to the north near Wem later the birthplace of another writer, [[John Ireland (writer)|John Ireland]], who was said to have been adopted by Wycherley's widow following the death of Ireland's parents.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|first=Lionel Henry|last=Cust|wstitle=Ireland, John (d.1808)|volume=29}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>

The playwright [[George Farquhar]]'s 1706 play ''The Recruiting Officer'' is set in Shrewsbury.<ref name="www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk">{{Cite web |date=16 September 2008 |title=Shrewsbury |url=http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/shrewsbu.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110202743/http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/shrewsbu.htm |archive-date=10 November 2012 |website=Literary Heritage West Midlands |publisher=Shropshire Council }}</ref>

[[File:A_collection_of_ball-dances_perform'd_at_court_(1706).jpg|thumb|''A Collection of Ball-dances Perform'd at Court''; all compos'd by Mr. Isaac, and writ down in characters, by John Weaver, dancing-master (1706)]]

=== Birthplace of English ballet and pantomime ===
{{main|John Weaver (dancer)}}
The "father of English ballet",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Limited |first=Six Ticks |title=Dance Festival in Celebration of 'Father of English Ballet' John Weaver |url=https://www.myshrewsbury.co.uk/blog/dance-festival-in-celebration-of-father-of-english-ballet-john-weaver/ |access-date=11 March 2023 |website=www.myshrewsbury.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> as well as the originator of pantomime,<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Weaver |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803121502615 |access-date=11 March 2023 |website=Oxford Reference |language=en}}</ref> [[John Weaver (dancer)|John Weaver]], developed his art in Shrewsbury. A second generation dancing master in the town,<ref>{{Cite book |title=Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 60 |publisher=Smith, Elder and Co., London |year=1885–1900 |editor-last=Lee |editor-first=Sidney |page=91}}Article by William George Dimock Fletcher.</ref> he founded English ballet, founded pantomime, and wrote on the philosophy, theology, statecraft and biology embedded in his era's understating of dance. Later in life he came to publish on the subject of dance, which he located in a wider understanding of his culture as representing a component of [[Ptolemy|Ptolemaic]] [[harmony]] and an earnest part of the statecraft of his time.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Taylor |first=Nancy |date=November 2001 |title=John Weaver and the Origins of English Pantomime: A Neoclassical Theory and Practice for Uniting Dance and Theatre |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theatre-survey/article/abs/john-weaver-and-the-origins-of-english-pantomime-a-neoclassical-theory-and-practice-for-uniting-dance-and-theatre/51E38DC25AE95FF38B5890A6A2668B27 |journal=Theatre Survey |language=en |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=191–214 |doi=10.1017/S0040557401000102 |issn=1475-4533 |s2cid=143360948}}</ref>

=== Architecture ===
[[File:PortraitInigoJones.jpg|thumb|Inigo Jones was active in the county at the beginning of his career as an architect.]]
The first known architectural project of [[Inigo Jones]] is the Cotton monument in the Church of St Chad, [[Norton in Hales|Norton-in-Hales]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Newman |first=John |date=1973 |title=An Early Drawing by Inigo Jones and a Monument in Shropshire |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/877379 |journal=The Burlington Magazine |volume=115 |issue=843 |pages=360–367 |jstor=877379 |issn=0007-6287}}</ref>

There are a number of important buildings in the county.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Newman |first1=John |title=Shropshire |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |date=2006 |publisher=Yale Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-300-12083-7 |series=Pevsner architectural guides |location=New Haven}}</ref> The world's first iron-framed building was built in Shrewsbury at the [[Ditherington Flax Mill|Flaxmill Maltings]]: the techniques pioneered in that building were necessary preconditions for [[skyscraper]]s.

[[John Nash (architect)|Nash]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Attingham Estate Cronkhill {{!}} Shropshire |url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/shropshire-staffordshire/attingham-park-estate-cronkhill |access-date=23 July 2023 |website=National Trust |language=en}}</ref> and [[Humphry Repton|Repton]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Attingham Park Repton ramble {{!}} Shropshire |url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/shropshire-staffordshire/attingham-park/attingham-park-repton-ramble-trail |access-date=23 July 2023 |website=National Trust |language=en}}</ref> were active at [[Attingham Park]].

A rare Anglo-Saxon hall, which was a high status building from the Anglo Saxon period, and possibly a feasting hall or palace, was excavated at nearby [[Attingham Park|Attingham]] in 2018; the dating window is between 400 AD and 1066.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Neal |first=Toby |date=7 February 2018 |title=Rare Saxon hall find at Attingham excites the experts |url=https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2018/02/08/rare-saxon-hall-find-excites-the-experts/ |access-date=8 July 2023 |website=www.shropshirestar.com |language=en}}</ref>

=== Film and television ===
[[File:EbenezerScroogeGrave.JPG|thumb|right|200px|A 1984 film adaptation of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' was filmed in [[Shrewsbury]]. Scrooge's fictional grave remains in the churchyard of [[St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury|St. Chad's Church.]]]]

The landscape around [[Hawkstone Park]] was used to represent parts of [[Narnia]] in the [[BBC]]'s TV adaptation of [[C. S. Lewis]]'s books in ''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'' in 1988 and ''[[Prince Caspian]]'' a year later.

The 1984 film version of Charles Dickens' ''[[A Christmas Carol (1984 film)|A Christmas Carol]]'' was filmed in Shrewsbury. The 2005 sitcom ''[[The Green Green Grass]]'' is set in Shropshire and was filmed near Ludlow.<ref name="Wodehouse 1977 195"/>

The 2007 film ''[[Atonement (2007 film)|Atonement]]'' was partly filmed in the county.<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 June 2017 |title=Atonement {{!}} Keira Knightley & James McAvoy {{!}} Stokesay Court Historic House {{!}} Shropshire |url=https://stokesaycourt.com/about/house/atonement/ |access-date=9 July 2023 |website=stokesaycourt.com |archive-date=24 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224205157/https://stokesaycourt.com/about/house/atonement/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The 2023 BBC adaptation of ''[[Bleak House]]'' was filmed partly in Shropshire.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Guyoncourt |first=Sally |date=26 March 2023 |title=Where the BBC's Great Expectations was filmed, from Shrewsbury to central London |url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/great-expectations-filmed-where-filming-locations-shrewsbury-new-series-bbc-one-2232929 |access-date=9 July 2023 |website=inews.co.uk |language=en}}</ref>