Shifnal is a market community as well as civil parish in Shropshire, England, about 3 miles (5 kilometres) eastern of Telford. It has a railway 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 plans for a 2nd, much bigger expansion of Shifnal, were disclosed by Shropshire County Council. The propositions, which caused considerable regional debate and brought about a public conference, consisted of up to another 1,500 homes, 40 hectares of employment land and a bypass south of the community by 2036. Big areas of farmland would certainly be needed for the growth.