{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox UK place |country = England |static_image_name = Meadowtown Hall - geograph.org.uk - 654250.jpg |static_image_caption = Meadowtown Hall |coordinates = {{coord|52.604|-3.018|display=inline,title}} |official_name = Meadowtown |population = |population_ref = |civil_parish = Worthen with Shelve |unitary_england = Shropshire |lieutenancy_england = Shropshire |region = West Midlands |constituency_westminster = Ludlow |post_town = SHREWSBURY |postcode_district = SY5 |postcode_area = SY |dial_code = 01743 |os_grid_reference = SJ310012 }}
'''Meadowtown''' is a hamlet in west Shropshire, England,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Shropshire gazetteer|url=https://archive.org/details/shropshiregazet00gazegoog|quote=Meadowtown Shropshire.|year=1824|publisher=T Gregory|page=[https://archive.org/details/shropshiregazet00gazegoog/page/n895 842]}}</ref> in the civil parish of Worthen with Shelve. Neighbouring hamlets include Marton, Ox Wood, Crest Wood, and Rorrington. thumb|Lloydolithus lloydi from Meadowtown Meadowtown contains a Site of Special Scientific Interest according to the U.K. government. A long-disused quarry in the hamlet is "a well known fossil collecting locality and has yielded typical and distinctive trilobites including Oxygiocarella debuchi, Marrolithus craticulatus, Lloydolithus lloydii and Oxyginus cordensis novenarius. Species of the brachiopod genus Dalmanella and occasional sponge spicules also occur."<ref>{{Cite web| title=Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) notified under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 as amended | url=http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1004180.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201201318/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1004180.pdf | archive-date=2015-02-01}}</ref>
Meadowtown is also home to "Mammoth", a cow made famous on the internet involving a UK milk-price dispute in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2014/11/17/mammoth-the-shropshire-cow-becomes-an-internet-star-in-milk-price-fight/ |title=Watch: Mammoth the Shropshire cow becomes an internet star in milk price fight « Shropshire Star |access-date=1 February 2015 |archive-date=6 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206130829/http://www.shropshirestar.com/farming/2014/11/17/mammoth-the-shropshire-cow-becomes-an-internet-star-in-milk-price-fight/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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