Underdale
Ward in Shropshire, England
| Coordinates: | 52.716, -2.73 |
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| OS grid ref: | SJ 50 13 |
| Dialling code: | 01743 (Shrewsbury) |
Underdale is an electoral ward in Shropshire, England, set largely within a rural landscape of rolling fields, hedgerow-lined lanes and small nucleated villages. The ward combines working farmland and pockets of residential development, so while agriculture remains prominent the area also attracts commuters who value countryside living with reasonable access to nearby market towns and services.
Locally there is a sense of long continuity – historic farmsteads, stone cottages and parish churches testify to centuries of settlement – but community life today is animated by village halls, parish events and a handful of small businesses. Political and social concerns tend to centre on rural issues such as planning, transport, broadband and protecting local character, while a mixed population of long‑standing farming families and newer households gives the ward a quietly active civic life.
Postcode districts covering Underdale
Most populated places nearby
- Telford 10.8 miles
- Shrewsbury 1.3 miles
- Rhosllannerchrugog 24.5 miles
- Wellington 9 miles
- Oswestry 16.5 miles
- Oswestry Rural 16.3 miles
- Ryton 16.8 miles
- Newport 15.3 miles
- Bridgnorth 18.1 miles
- Market Drayton 16.4 miles
- Codsall 23.4 miles
- Ludlow 23.9 miles
Neighbouring places
- Monkmoor Ward 0.3 miles
- Castlefields and Ditherington Ward 0.5 miles
- Abbey Ward 0.7 miles
- Sundorne Ward 1 mile
- Quarry and Coton Hill Ward 1.1 miles
- Shrewsbury Built-up area 1.3 miles
- Harlescott Ward 1.3 miles
- Uffington Parish 1.4 miles
- Belle Vue Ward 1.5 miles
- Bagley Ward 1.5 miles
- Battlefield Ward 1.6 miles
- Porthill Ward 1.6 miles
Example postcodes in Underdale
SY2 5TS, SY2 5TF, SY2 5HS, SY2 5HZ, SY2 5TG, SY2 5YN, SY2 5GB, SY2 5RZ, SY2 5AT … See all
Transport links
- Liverpool John Lennon Airport 42.9 miles
- Birmingham International Airport 45 miles
- Shrewsbury Railway Station 0.8 miles
- Yorton Railway Station 6.4 miles
Hotels near Underdale Ad
- The Old Post Office 1.1 miles
- The Bull Inn 4 1.1 miles
- The Alb 3 1 mile
- The Corbet Arms 1.3 miles
- Prince Rupert Hotel 4 1.1 miles
- Lion & Pheasant Hotel 4 1 mile
- Holiday Inn Express Shrewsbury 3 1.8 miles
- The Vaults 3 0.9 miles
- Abbots Mead Hotel 2 1.1 miles
- Tumbledown Hotel 4 0.9 miles
Schools in Underdale
- Severndale Specialist Academy Special
- Wilfred Owen Primary School Primary
Local points of interest
- Sundorne Castle Estate 1.7 miles
- Greenhous Meadow Stadium 2.1 miles
- Bomere Wood Forest 3.3 miles
- Attingham Estate 3.5 miles
- Viroconium Archaeological site 4.7 miles
- New Bucks Head Stadium 9.7 miles
- Whattal Castle Historic site 11.7 miles
- Madeley Court Estate 13.1 miles
- Osbaston Wood Forest 13.4 miles
- Aston Hall Estate 13.9 miles
- Strata Marcella Abbey Historic site 16 miles
- Park Hall Stadium 16.6 miles