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Eric Smith and Clare AshfordEric and Clare find out why there are approximately twenty times more chickens in Shropshire than there are peopleJay Unger visits Chirbury Primary school

Chirbury Primary school, near Montgomery, was founded nearly 340 years ago! Its one of the very few schools to still have have a head masters house built in the Stuart period! The school has been raising the funds to restore the grade 2 listed building so that students can use it again. BBC Shropshire's Jay Unger was given the grand tour of the site by Timothy Roberts, the schools present headmaster.