Simpson Square, Shrewsbury
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Simpson Square, Shrewsbury
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 16 Nov 2015
Viewed across the northern end of the A5191 Castle Foregate which becomes the A5191 St Michael's Street nearby. Simpson Square is one of the newest residential blocks of flats in Shrewsbury. It occupies the site of Simpson’s Square, built c1810, demolished after the Second World War. John Simpson (1755-1815) was in charge of the rebuilding of St Chad's church http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4010162 in Shrewsbury in the 1790s.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.715172
Longitude
-2.74841