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Wrekin

/ ˈriːkɪn /

noun

  1. the Wrekin
    an isolated hill in the English Midlands in Telford and Wrekin unitary authority, Shropshire. Height: 400 m (1335 ft)
  2. round the Wrekin or all round the Wrekin dialect.
    the long way round

    he went all round the Wrekin instead of explaining clearly

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Meanwhile, Telford and Wrekin Council said responses to public consultation would be reviewed in due course.

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Eighteen of them are in Shropshire, with two each in Coventry, Sandwell, Dudley, South Staffordshire and Telford and Wrekin.

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A Paralympian who scaled Shropshire's Wrekin on his hands to raise money to help other wheelchair users said the achievement felt bigger than his gold medal win.

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The gold medallist in wheelchair racing said despite having always lived in Telford, he had not been at the top of the Wrekin before.

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"Originally I thought 'it's only the Wrekin, it's not too far' - maybe for a pair of legs, but not for a pair of arms," he had said prior to the undertaking.

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