Photo: Martin Wilson · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Tilstock yet, but Nantwich next door has 39
34 towns across Shropshire can name a famous person born there. No town in Shropshire lists more than Shrewsbury, with 180. Telford has the second-longest list in Shropshire, after Shrewsbury, with 99. The best known born in Nantwich is Ashley Westwood.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Tilstock’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Tilstock yet.
Famous people born near Tilstock
The neighbour with the most names is Nantwich, at 39.
Nantwich · 11 miAshley Westwood & 38 more
Whitchurch · 2 miEdward German & 8 more
Ellesmere · 9 miEglantyne Jebbs & 6 morePVWem · 6 miPeter Vaughan & 5 more
Market Drayton · 8 miJohn Lewis & 5 more
Malpas · 7 miGeorge Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley & 3 morePEAudlem · 8 miPeter Ellson & 2 moreWHShawbury · 10 miWilliam HazledineQuestions about famous people from Tilstock
Who counts as from Tilstock?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Tilstock’s built-up area (the ONS 2022 boundary), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a bigger area (“London”), another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are placed in the town by the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary (Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0). Ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across UK towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (5)
- Ashley Westwood: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward German: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eglantyne Jebbs: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lewis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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