Market-Drayton, or DRAYTON-IN-HALES, a town of Shropshire, on the Tern, 18 miles N.E. of Shrewsbury. It has a grammar-school (1554) and a church dating from the 12th century, up whose spire Clive (q.v.) clambered as a boy. At Bloreheath, 3 miles to the east, the Yorkists won a victory in 1459. Pop. of parish, 5188. See two works by J. R. Lee (1861) and T. P. Marshall (1884).
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