[wiki=27fe56b89bb41bda1bd489367f044b14]Shrewsbury[/wiki] - Shropshire's county town (population: 70,000) and the birthplace of Charles Darwin
* [wiki=3edd9d9a885cd320266b4fa1ef892ea2]Bridgnorth[/wiki] - a town divided into low and high towns, described by Charles I as providing 'the finest view'
* [wiki=acb5697f36046fdec499a765af78ef14]Church Stretton[/wiki] - Shropshire's "Little Switzerland"
* [wiki=4efd732f1a6bfde42e03665998a4eebd]Ludlow[/wiki] - gastronomic capital of the Midlands and an official "slow" town
* [wiki=d8dc4e26069d4ec9b8fa530baf678d89]Much Wenlock[/wiki] - birthplace of the modern Olympics
* [wiki=a39a098c8b0c0d6fb2afe69eaa3536f7]Newport[/wiki] - one of Shropshire's market towns
* [wiki=c28e7f48c8c209723acecdb234244011]Oswestry[/wiki] - a market town near the Shropshire/Wales border
* [wiki=fb9fd4892a98e6a0f1051e95de37e3cc]Telford[/wiki] - the largest town (population: 130,000) and named after the engineer Thomas Telford
* [wiki=8f6c5a62db69053d277a892915388860]Whitchurch[/wiki] - market town on the Llangollen Canal
* [wiki=c64613883708269480b6931e4522352e]Wem[/wiki] - a small market town and home to the modern sweet pea
* [wiki=adc40f36d0fd5e2f9ba21a31de58daef]Ellesmere[/wiki] - in the heart of Shropshire's "meres and mosses" and home to 9 glacial meres (small lakes)
* [wiki=fe67b1b1d8546f8b5e4156b2f5f46964]Market Drayton[/wiki] - a market town on the Shropshire Union Canal and the home of gingerbread
* [wiki=6c03cc09f72e9714da009179f930e8fa]Shifnal[/wiki] - a town to the east of Telford, once an important staging post on the London to Holyhead road
* [wiki=fd1119231b2da055da11d615d6d3e010]Bishop's Castle[/wiki] - a traditional and very small old English town near the Welsh border
* [wiki=3593876441f25a38b22d3fbc6a80f2ac]Clun[/wiki] - a tiny town in the southwest corner of the county, described by A.E. Housman as "the quietest place under the sun"
* [wiki=e26ca3c23393c43b119cd10edc7d6822]Cleobury Mortimer[/wiki] - a small town in southeast Shropshire, between the Clee Hills and Wyre Forest
[wiki=76a6250932bdbc1eaa928acce695270a]Whittington[/wiki] - a pretty little village near Oswestry and home to the impressive Whittington Castle situated in the heart of the village