text: Nearby is Wenlock Edge, an important geological feature. Both the Edge and the town are the subject of several poems by A. E. Housman in his work A Shropshire Lad, such as: "On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble..." and "Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town...". In 1909 six of these poems were set to music by Vaughan Williams as On Wenlock Edge, Song cycle for tenor and piano quintet.
  The 2012 Summer Olympics mascot, Wenlock, is named after the town in honour of WP Brookes and his Wenlock Olympian Society.
  Much Wenlock was host to an annual Poetry Festival, held the week-end after Easter. Its patron was Dame Carol Ann Duffy.
  The annual Live Arts Festival held during March is a section of Wenlock Olympian Games. There are competitions in music, creative writing and dance for young people aged 18 years and under.
  Other notable people
  Peter de Leia (died 1198), Bishop of St David's, Wales, was previously prior of Wenlock Priory.
  David Cranage (1866–1957), Dean of Norwich, was previously curate at Much Wenlock parish church in 1898–1902.
  Rosemary Leach (1935 in Much Wenlock – 2017) English stage, television and film actress
  Tony Levin (1940 in Much Wenlock – 2011) was an English jazz drummer, who played at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in the 1960s
  Dame Rosemary Butler DBE (born 1943 in Much Wenlock) politician  and Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales 2011 to 2016.
  Gabrielle Drake (born 1944) the actress, lives in Wenlock Priory
  John Constable (born 1952 in Much Wenlock) is an English playwright, poet, performer and activist, author of The Southwark Mysteries.