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'Harlescott' is a suburb of the town of Shrewsbury, county town of Shropshire. It is one of the most industrial parts of the town but is the 5th most deprived ward in Shropshire (not including Telford and Wrekin). Neighbouring suburbs include: Sundorne and Ditherington.
Shrewsbury's livestock market was at Harlescott (between 1956 and 2006 - it is now at a new site out-of-town at Battlefield). The site has been redeveloped with a Tesco supermarket. Next door there is a Park and Ride car park..^[2] Every Sunday, when there are no Park and Ride buses, an open air market is held at this site.
There was once a military supply depot here, "RAF Harlescott", but this has closed and the nearest RAF base is now a few miles away at Shawbury. Harlescott was also once a fairly notable railway centre, but now all the sidings have gone. Only the Welsh Marches Line itself and Harlescott Crossing and its signal box, remain.
There are two pubs in Harlescott, one called ''The Anchor Inn'' and the other ''Harry Hotspur''. The latter is named after Harry Hotspur, who fought at the Battle of Shrewsbury, which took place in the Harlescott area. Another pub, ''The Harlescott'', recently closed and was later set alight by arsonists.^[3] It has now been demolished and a new supermarket (Lidl) has been built on the site.

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1. Census data
2. Harlescott Park & Ride scheme
3. ''Derelict pub gutted by inferno''