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Yorton
The Railway Inn public house, Yorton
Yorton Location within Shropshire
OS grid reference	SJ503237
Civil parish	Clive
Unitary authority	Shropshire
Ceremonial county	Shropshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SHREWSBURY
Postcode district	SY4
Dialling code	01939
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Shropshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	North Shropshire
List of places UK England Shropshire 52°48′32″N 2°44′10″W / 52.809°N 2.736°W / 52.809; -2.736

Yorton is a small village in Shropshire, England, north of the county town of Shrewsbury and south of the town of Wem.

Yorton is represented in the unitary Shropshire Council and the North Shropshire constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Yorton railway station is located on the Welsh Marches Line between Wem and Shrewsbury. The station is a request stop. The station also serves the nearby larger village of Clive. The station primarily offers services between Shrewsbury and Crewe, stopping at Wem, Prees, Whitchurch, Wrenbury and Nantwich. The station is also served by morning peak services southbound to Wolverhampton, Birmingham New Street and Birmingham International, as well as evening peak services southbound to Hereford, Newport, Cardiff Central, Swansea, Carmarthen and Milford Haven and northbound to Wilmslow, Stockport and Manchester Piccadilly.

The village is served by the 511 bus route, operated by Arriva Midlands North, which runs between Shrewsbury and Whitchurch via Wem. Some services terminate in Wem and do not continue to Whitchurch.

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