Ellesmere
Ellesmere is a market community near Oswestry in north Shropshire, England, notable for its distance to a variety of noticeable Meres. The community is located alongside Ellesmere (also known as 'the Mere'), one of the largest natural meres in England outside the Lake District and also among nine glacial meres in the location. ('antarctic' means that the clinical depression occupied by the plain was the area of a block of ice that continued at the end of the last Ice Age). These meres are various from those in the Lake District because they do not have a flow of water right into them to maintain the degree. A man-made island in the Mere was constructed in 1812 from soil removed during the making of the yards at Ellesmere House. This was later on called Moscow Island, as Napoleon was compelled to pull back from Moscow that year. The Mere has a site visitors' centre as well as is prominent with birdwatchers, a number of whom visit to see grey herons nesting. There are eight various other meres nearby: Blakemere, Colemere, Crosemere, Kettlemere, Newtonmere, Whitemere, Sweatmere and also Hanmer Mere. The civil parish which comprises the town is Ellesmere Urban; the surrounding church, covering a large rural area, is Ellesmere Rural.
