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WENLOCK  , a market town in the municipal borough of Wenlock (q.v.), and the Ludlow parliamentary division of Shropshire, England, 163 m . N.W. from London on the Great Western railway . It lies at the north end of Wenlock Edge, a range running south-west from the Severn valley . A priory was founded here as a nunnery by St Milburg, granddaughter of Penda, about 68o, and after being destroyed by the Danes was refounded by Leofric in 1017 . Afterwards it was remodelled by Roger de Montgomery for Cluniac monks . There are beautiful remains of the priory church, chiefly Early English; but there is a chapter-house of ornate Norman work . The prior's house, still inhabited, is a remarkable specimen of 15th-century work, adjoining and incorporating remains in earlier styles . The parish church of Holy Trinity, close to the ruins, is of mixed styles from Norman onwards . There is a picturesque half-timbered guild-hall (1589) . Trade is mainly agricultural, but there are limestone quarries in the neighbourhood . Wenlock received the grant of a market ftom Henry III. in 1224 . It was incorporated by Edward IV. in 1448, when it also received the privilege of returning members to parliament, but in 1885 it ceased to have separate representation .