Shrewsbury Registry Office Information

There are 13 registry offices across the Shropshire Council area but the registry office for Shrewsbury is located at the top of Abbey Foregate on Preston Street. If you need to make an appointment to register a birth or death, or for marriage or civil partnership preliminaries - please telephone 0345 678 9016 (via Customer Service Centre).

Services provided by the Shrewsbury should be accessed by appointment only.

Registration officers will make every effort to see those who turn up without an appointment but there are no guarantees that they will be seen in less than an hour as booked appointments take priority.

If you need to contact Shrewsbury registry office out of hours in the event of an emergency death registration for those with particular cultural or religious beliefs, contact your funeral director. If it is an emergency regarding Registrar Generals Licences for Marriages or Civil Partnership where one party is seriously ill and not expected to recover, contact your GP or if the person is in hospital, the Hospital Administrator or Chaplain.

Shrewsbury Registry Office - 0345 678 9016