page_title: Telford
section_title: Acting & Writing
hierarchical_section_title: Telford / Notable people / Acting & Writing
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Ellis Peters
context_page_description: Telford is a large town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England, about 13 miles east of Shrewsbury, and 30 miles north west of Birmingham. With an estimated population of 175,271 in 2017 and around 155,000 in Telford itself, Telford is the largest town in Shropshire, and one of the fastest-growing towns in the United Kingdom.
  It is named after civil engineer Thomas Telford, who engineered many road and rail projects in Shropshire. The town was put together in the 1960s and 1970s as a new town on previously industrial and agricultural land and smaller towns. Like other planned towns of the era, Telford was created from the merger of other, smaller settlements, most notably the towns of Wellington, Oakengates, Madeley and Dawley. Many of the New Town's newer inhabitants were originally from Birmingham or Wolverhampton.
  Telford Shopping Centre, a modern shopping mall, was constructed at the new town's geographical centre, along with an extensive Town Park. The M54 motorway was completed in 1983, improving the town's road links with the West Midlands conurbation.
context_section_description: Hesba Stretton (1832 - 1911) an English writer of children's books. Was born in Wellington.
  Wyke Bayliss (1835 - 1906) a British poet, author, and painter, was born in Madeley
  Edith Pargeter OBE, BEM (1913 in Horsehay – 1995 in Madeley) nom de plume Ellis Peters, was an English author especially of history and historical fiction
  Norman Jones (1932 in Donnington – 2013) an English actor, primarily on TV.
  Stewart Lee (born 1968 in Wellington) an English stand-up comedian, writer and director
  Paul Blackthorne (born 1969 in Wellington) is an English actor, who plays Detective Lance in the DC TV series Arrow
  Anna Richardson (born 1970 in Wellington) is an English television presenter, writer and journalist.
  George Naylor(born 1993 in Shrewsbury) a stage, screen and voice actor.
  Christian Brassington (born 1983 in Wellington) a film and television actor.
caption: Edith Pargeter / Ellis Peters, 1995
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