Pipe Gate
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 St Leonard's Church, built c. 1830-31 |
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| Woore shown within Shropshire | |
| Population | 1,069 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SJ730422 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CREWE |
| Postcode district | CW3 |
| Dialling code | 01630 |
| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Shropshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| EU Parliament | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Woore is a village and civil parish in the north east of Shropshire, England. It had a population of 1,411 in the 2001 census, falling to 1,069 at the 2011 Census. The name means "boundary" in ancient Celtic and this fits nicely with the fact that it is on the boundary with both the counties of Cheshire and Staffordshire. The parish is the most northerly in Shropshire.
The civil parish includes several other hamlets and villages including Gravenhunger, Dorrington, Pipe Gate and Ireland's Cross.
The nearest significant towns to Woore are Market Drayton, Whitchurch, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Nantwich and Crewe. The A51 and A525 roads run through the village. The only road links between Woore and the rest of Shropshire pass through adjoining counties. The village is also the farthest place in Shropshire from the centre of the county near Cantlop.
The village was served by the North Staffordshire Railway's Stoke to Market Drayton Line, with a railway station at Pipe Gate (for Woore). Services opened in 1870, but reduced to two trains per day from the mid-1920s. Express Dairies had a creamery with private siding access to Pipe Gate, allowing its preferred transport partner the Great Western Railway to provide milk trains to the facility, for onward scheduling to London via Market Drayton. Passenger services ceased from 1956, and the line was lifted in 1966 after the closure of the creamery, following review under the Beeching Axe.
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