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Other Places Called Shrewsbury

We are aware that Shrewsbury, England, is not the only Shrewsbury in the world - as a matter of fact, there are lots that we know of in the USA alone! For more information about the other Shrewsburys, see below.

United States of America

Colorado

There is a valley called Shrewsbury Gulch, in the town of Westcreek in Douglas County, Colorado.
It lies between Denver and Colorado Springs.
The valley is approximately 7,500 feet above sea level.

Kentucky

Shrewsbury is located within Grayson County, Kentucky.
Maps from around 1900 show it as a settlement in its own right, but today it just seems to be less well defined, and many maps don't show it at all.

Louisiana

There was a town in Louisiana called Shrewsbury, in Jefferson Parish. However, surrounding areas of Jefferson grew together as a suburb of New Orleans. Nowadays, the area formerly known as Shrewsbury is generally considered to be part of Jefferson.

Shrewsbury, Louisiana was affected by the flooding resulting from hurricane Katrina in August and September 2005.
Find out more from the BBC using the following link

You can view maps of New Orleans and its Shrewsbury area on Google using the following link

Maryland

Shrewsbury Neck is a cape located in Kent County, Maryland.

Massachusetts

Shrewsbury is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
It is about 50 minutes from Boston and 15 minutes to downtown Worcester.

The population of Shrewsbury in 2000 was about 31,640.

For more information on Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, visit their website at:

Missouri

Shrewsbury is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri.

The city's population in 2000 was 6,644 people.

Visit the City of Shrewsbury website at:

New Jersey

We know that yet another Shrewsbury exists in the USA, in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The New Jersey Shrewsbury is a borough, with a population of about 3,600 people.

There is also a Shrewsbury River in New Jersey

Ohio

A deserted settlement in Hamilton County, Ohio. Was located in Whitewater Township.

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania is another state in America that has a Shrewsbury! in fact it has at least TWO.
(There are Shrewsburys in two distinct parts of the state, the information we have about how the elements relate isn't clear) .

Lycoming County/Sullivan County

There is a Shrewsbury township which appears to extend across the boundary of Sullivan and Lycoming Counties, Pennsylvania.
 
Some references show this as two separate places.

York County

A township with a population (at the 2000 census) of 5,947 people, and a borough with a population of 3,378.
 
Visit the Shrewsbury, York County website at:

Vermont

Shrewsbury is a town in Rutland County, Vermont.

In the 2000 census, its population was 1,108.

You can visit the Vermont Shrewsbury's website too:

West Virginia

As with some of the other Shrewsbury's in the US, this one appears to have become a district rather than a settlement in its own right.
It is in Kanawha County, West Virginia, it seems to correspond to the area known as 'Belle'

Canada

Ontario

On the north-western shore of Lake Erie, close to the US-Canadian border. Between Detroit and Toronto.
 
We have found one reference that refers to this Shrewsbury as a ghost town:
To see a map showing Shrewsbury, Ontario - follow the link below

Quebec

We have found some references to a Shrewsbury in Quebec, but have been unable to find much concrete information, here's what we have:

Australia

There is a rocky feature, called Shrewsbury Rock (or sometimes Shrewsbury Reef) off the Queensland Coast. Click the link below to see where it is on a map.

Jamaica

There are 3 Shrewsburys in Jamaica
 

Parish of Portland

At the eastern end of the island

Parish of Saint Elizabeth

At the western end of the island

Parish of Westmoreland

At the western end of the island (quite close to Shrewsbury, Saint Elizabeth)

Norway

There is a Shrewsbury point on the Svalbard Archipelago.
Svalbard is in the Arctic to the north of Norway.

Barbados

While it's not a town, there is a Shrewsbury Chapel in the east of the island of Barbados

South Africa

We have found reference to a Shrewsbury Farm in the Northern Cape of South Africa. At location 27° 39' S, 22° 33' E

Zimbabwe

We have also found references to a Shrewsbury Farm, about 40 miles south of Harare, in Zimbabwe. The farm has gone out of use during the unrest of recent years.
 

Shrewsbury's Twin Town

Although not Shrewsbury by name, Shrewsbury is twinned with a Dutch town called Zutphen.

If you know of any other Shrewsburys around the world, please let us know! You can contact us by email, on webmaster@shrewsbury.gov.uk. Thank you!