Shifnal
Shifnal is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, regarding 3 miles (5 kilometres) east of Telford. It has a train station on the Shrewsbury-Wolverhampton Line and is near the M54 motorway. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 6,391, boosting to 6,776 at the 2011 census. With a large number of on-going housing developments this is expected to pass 10,000 by 2020. In late 2018 prepare for a 2nd, far larger development of Shifnal, were exposed by Shropshire County Council. The propositions, which triggered significant local debate and also brought about a public conference, consisted of up to another 1,500 homes, 40 hectares of employment land as well as a bypass south of the community by 2036. Huge areas of farmland would be needed for the development.
