Wenlock Explained

Wenlock may refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

• Little Wenlock, a village in Shropshire
• Much Wenlock, a town in Shropshire
  • (Much) Wenlock (UK Parliament constituency)
  • Wenlock Priory, a 7th/12th-century monastery
• Wenlock Basin, a canal basin in London
• Wenlock Edge, a limestone escarpment near Much Wenlock

Elsewhere

• Wenlock, Queensland, Australia
• Wenlock, Essex County, Vermont, USA
• Wenlock River, Queensland, Australia

People

• Baron Wenlock, a title created three times in the Peerage of England and of the United Kingdom
  • John Wenlock, 1st Baron Wenlock
  • Robert Lawley, 1st Baron Wenlock (1768–1834)
  • Paul Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock (1784–1842)
  • Beilby Lawley, 2nd Baron Wenlock (1818–1880)
  • Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock (1849–1912)
  • Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock (1860–1932)
• Milburga of Wenlock (died 715), Benedictine abbess of Wenlock Abbey

Geology

• Wenlock epoch, the second series of the Silurian
• Wenlock Group or Wenlockian, the middle series of strata in the Silurian (Upper Silurian) of Great Britain
  • Wenlock Series lagerstätte, preserved in the limestone Wenlock Series of Herefordshire, England, offers paleontologists a rare snapshot of a moment in time, about 420 Mya.
• Wenlock Limestone, a stratigraphic unit in the United Kingdom
• Wenlock Shale, a stratigraphic unit in the United Kingdom

Other

• Wenlock, Craven Arms and Lightmoor Extension railway, a former railway in Shropshire, England
• Much Wenlock and Severn Junction railway, a former railway in Shropshire, England
• The Wenlock Arms, a public house in London
• Wenlock Olympian Society Annual Games, a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games dating from 1850, held each year in Much Wenlock
• Wenlock and Mandeville, the official mascots for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics being held in London, United Kingdom

See also

• On Wenlock Edge (song cycle), of 1909 by Ralph Vaughan Williams, to texts by A. E. Housman