Salop Leisure, Emstrey
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Salop Leisure, Emstrey
Image: © P L Chadwick Taken: 12 Mar 2011
At first sight you could think this was a health & fitness centre, except that there are an awful lot of caravans and mobile homes around. In fact it is caravans, mobile homes, and the like, that the company sells. They moved to this new site, accessed from the B4380 (Emstrey Bank) in 2006, having been at Meole Brace in Shrewsbury since 1966, when they were known as Salop Caravans. Salop is the old name often used for Shropshire, but it was dropped some years ago by the County Council and in many other contexts. The word caused some embarrassment in the European Parliament, because it is an impolite term in French. This is rather ironic, as the abbreviation Salop derives from the Anglo-French "Salopesberia".
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Image Location
Latitude
52.690783
Longitude
-2.708786