Market Drayton and Church Stretton are towns in which English county?
Market Drayton Methodist Church Market Drayton Methodist Church Market Drayton Methodist Church is a Methodist Church on Shrewsbury Road in Market Drayton, Shropshire. It is part of the Market Drayton Churches Together group of churches and Market Drayton Food Bank. Market Drayton's first Methodists held their meetings in private houses in 1799, in places then called Tinkers Lane and Ranters Gullet. A visiting Archdeacon of Shrewsbury at that time wrote "there are many church-going Methodists here, probably some hundreds". In 1807, a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built on land between Keelings Lane and Street Lane, now called Salisbury Road and Shrewsbury Road respectively. Ten
St. Mary's Church, Market Drayton St. Mary's Church, Market Drayton St Mary's Church, Market Drayton stands on the top of a prominent outcrop of red sandstone rock above the River Tern. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The Domesday Book describes "A Priest in Drayton", and there was likely a wooden Saxon church on the same site prior to the construction of the present Norman stone building, which dates to 1150. In 1201 Pope Innocent III forbade the weekly market which had traditionally taken place in the churchyard after the Sunday morning service.