The story
- Old English · derived fromSċrobbesburh
- English todayShrewsbury
From Old English Sċrobbesburh (literally “fort in the scrubland region”), from *sċrob (“shrub, scrub”) + burh. Compare Shropshire from Sċrobbesċīr, short form of Sċrobbesbyriġ sċīr (literally “shire of Shrewsbury”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.