Talk:Shifnal

message: We’ve had 3 attempts to change the Charles Dickens’s reference now in the “Famous People” part of this page in an attempt to be malicious. I am beginning to assume that this is the work of a sock puppeteer, possibly someone associated with the spurious comments and photograph on the The Old Curiosity Shop page. I am no longer prepared to work to accommodate this person’s perverse point of view that includes removing links; it is just too onerous and propose that whenever this person vandalises the page we replace his entry with  the following text until such times as the Shifnal Historical Society provide a more definitive statement..
Charles Dickens, whose grandmother was employed at nearby Tong Castle, visited the town on several occasions and many believe that the buildings in his book The Old Curiosity Shop were based on those in the town. The Shifnal Historical Society report that he was very taken with the architecture of the town, and for that reason, he based The Old Curiosity Shop on The Unicorn Public House now known as Naughty Nells.
In respone to above 
Wikipedia is aimed at being a creditable encyclopedia that could be used as a serious reference. Using sources such as the Shropshire tourism website or Shifnal Historical Society are not acceptable for such a website. Please find the sources that those groups quote and if they are applicable for a serious encyclopedia include them or admit that the Charles Dickens story is a rumour and treat it as that.
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Charles Dickens had family links to Shifnall that can be proven via historic records
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MMMV-NZB
Mariegriffiths (talk) 16:36, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
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message: I note that following the discovery of the fraud that the "Bow Street Runners (forerunners of the police)" were called in. As the discovery was in 1856 it is surely too late for the era of the Runners who disbanded in 1839 and whose men were absorbed in the Metropolitan Police force. Also by then Shropshire had its own constabulary, formed in the 1840s, so there would have been a widespread police presence within Shropshire already. I am changing the description to "the police" to reflect this in the absence of a specific constabulary being named in the account.Cloptonson (talk) 08:47, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Shifnal Bank Fraud - an anachronism

message: I query the description of the Caynton Caves as being just outside of Shifnal (I assume you mean the town rather than the parish which is extensive), as they are in the parish of Beckbury, a village which, depending on which of two roads you take from Shifnal is 6 or 7 miles away and probably out of sight of the town.Cloptonson (talk) 18:12, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: How far or near is "just outside of Shifnal"?