Bishop's Castle was a borough constituency in Shropshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The market town of Bishop's Castle became a parliamentary borough in 1584 and was a constituency of the House of Commons of England until 1707, of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two burgesses. The historian Lewis Namier claimed that in the middle of the eighteenth century it was the one notoriously corrupt parliamentary borough in Shropshire. It was abolished under the Reform Act 1832. Members of Parliament MPs 1584–1660 MPs 1660–1832 Constituency abolished / disenfranchised (1832) Election results Elections in the 1830s See also Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire#Historical constituencies List of former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies Unreformed House of Commons References Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1584 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1832