title: Wenlock
text: # Wenlock
  
  Wenlock may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  ### United Kingdom
  
  * Little Wenlock, a village in Shropshire
  * Much Wenlock, a town in Shropshire
     * (Much) Wenlock (UK Parliament constituency)
     * Wenlock Priory, a 7th/12th-century monastery
  * Wenlock Basin, a canal basin in London
  * Wenlock Edge, a limestone escarpment near Much Wenlock
  
  ### Elsewhere
  
  * Wenlock, Queensland, Australia
  * Wenlock, Essex County, Vermont, USA
  * Wenlock River, Queensland, Australia
  
  ## People
  
  * Baron Wenlock, a title created three times in the Peerage of England and of the United Kingdom
     * John Wenlock, 1st Baron Wenlock
     * Robert Lawley, 1st Baron Wenlock (1768–1834)
     * Paul Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock (1784–1842)
     * Beilby Lawley, 2nd Baron Wenlock (1818–1880)
     * Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock (1849–1912)
     * Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock (1860–1932)
  * Milburga of Wenlock (died 715), Benedictine abbess of Wenlock Abbey
  
  ## Geology
  
  * Wenlock epoch, the second series of the Silurian
  * Wenlock Group or Wenlockian, the middle series of strata in the Silurian (Upper Silurian) of Great Britain
     * Wenlock Series lagerstätte, preserved in the limestone Wenlock Series of Herefordshire, England, offers paleontologists a rare snapshot of a moment in time, about 420 Mya.
  * Wenlock Limestone, a stratigraphic unit in the United Kingdom
  * Wenlock Shale, a stratigraphic unit in the United Kingdom
  
  ## Other
  
  * Wenlock, Craven Arms and Lightmoor Extension railway, a former railway in Shropshire, England
  * Much Wenlock and Severn Junction railway, a former railway in Shropshire, England
  * The Wenlock Arms, a public house in London
  * Wenlock Olympian Society Annual Games, a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games dating from 1850, held each year in Much Wenlock
  * Wenlock and Mandeville, the official mascots for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics being held in London, United Kingdom
  