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Shirewilt Estates is a location that appears in Season 5 of AMC's The Walking Dead, where the group search for Noah's family, hoping also to find the estate as a safe place to stay.
Not much is known about the estate before or when the outbreak started, other than it was a residential community located just outside Richmond, Virginia, approximately 530 miles northeast of Atlanta, and where Noah lived along with his family.
Post-Apocalypse
Not much is known about the estate other than, according to Noah, there were 20 people in the community, including himself, his father, mother, and little brothers. He and his father, upon embarking on a search mission for Noah's missing uncle, were ambushed by the Grady Memorial Hospital group when arriving in Atlanta. Noah was taken, while his father was left behind to die.
At some point following Noah and his father's departure, the community was pillaged by a group of unknown survivors, with all remaining inhabitants killed.
Noah took Rick Grimes's group to the community, in a hope to find a new safe place to rebuild their life. However upon reaching the place, they found the place has been overran and lost to the walkers. The fences are destroyed, and some of the buildings were burnt, or blew. Noah was devastated upon learning the truth about his home, and his family whom he found dead in their house. One of his twin brothers reanimated as a walker and bit Tyreese on the arm, infectng him, which led him to his death moments later.
Inhabitants
Residents
Noah's father - One of the members in the community along with his wife, and three sons. He and his family were residents at the residence prior to the apocalypse.
Noah's mother - One of the members community along with her husband, and three sons. She and her family were residents at the residence prior to the apocalypse.
Noah - One of the members in the community along with his father, mother, and little brothers. He and his family were residence at the area prior to the apocalypse.
Noah's first little brother - One of the members in the community along with his parents, older brother, and twin. He and his family were residents at the residence prior to the apocalypse.
Noah's youngest brother - One of the members in the community along with his parents, older brother, and twin. He and his family were residents at the residence prior to the apocalypse.
Deaths
Noah's mother - Possibly killed during the chaos, got bit and reanimated as a walker, only to be put down by a one of the remaining surviving survivors from her community. Her body later was found by her oldest son, who was away at the time the community fell. Noah left her body after he covered it with a blanket.
Noah's younger twin brother - Possibly killed and disemboweled by one of the walkers that attacked his family's house. Tyreese found this body while checking out the house ahead of Noah.
Noah's youngest twin brother - He was found reanimated as a walker from behind a door when Tyreese and his older brother Noah checked the house. Walker twin got out moments later, bit Tyreese on his arm, forcing his Noah to put him down by stabbing his eye with one of the toys.
Tyreese - Tyreese's death was caused in Noah's home in Shirewilt Estates, as he was attacked and bit by Noah's brother, though he died in a car leaving Shirewilt.
The name of Shirewilt Estates is a reference to Wiltshire Estates, a semi-prominent location in the early issues of the comics and that was shown in Season 2 of the show, though it was never named onscreen.
It appears that a group called The Wolves possibly attacked Shirewilt, as the words are spray-painted onto a stack of bricks, "WOLVES NOT FAR". The homes in Shirewilt are burned and the citizens appear to have been shot and mutilated. Noah's mother's corpse had a large gash in her head, presumably from a baseball bat. The sliced walker bodies, tire marks, and broken wall from behind Shirewilt seem to be a nod to The Wolves as well. As of the episode, "What Happened and What's Going On", the possibility of the group The Wolves existing and/or making further appearances is up to speculation.
It was confirmed by Greg Nicotero on Talking Dead that humans were responsible for Shirewilt's destruction and not walkers.
