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For Your Information Broseley Location Your map of
A5 A5 M54 Junc 4 Weston Park Places of interest: THE A458 River WREKIN Shifnal Boscobel Broseley Pipe Museum (01952 433424) – check Severn T D House B4380 M54 Broseley for opening times. The Museum shows visitors the Ironbridge To Shrewsbury Buildwas Abbey Ironbridge history of local tobacco pipe-making. It is one of the Gorge Museums RAF Museum Benthall Hall Cosford sites of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum (Museum car Wenlock Museum & A4169 park in Duke Street). ironbridge.org.uk Wenlock Priory Sutton BROSELEY Maddock Hughley B4371M CH E Benthall Hall (National Trust) (01952 882159) A442 C B4373 – check for opening times. The Hall is a beautiful 16th Bourton A458 Worfield A454 Morville Century stone house with a stunning interior. There is WENLOCK EDG B4368 also a carefully restored plantsman’s garden, old kitchen Shipton B D TH Severn Valley Steam Railway garden and a nearby church. nationaltrust.org.uk B4378 Eardington A458 Ditton Priors Daniel’s Mill Broseley Local History Society website: Quatt Cleobury Dudmaston broseley.org.uk B4555 B4363 North A442 CORVE DALE KINVER EDGE Bus services: Burwarton Billingsley Highley Stottesdon Rays Farm Severn Valley The main bus stop is on Bridgnorth Road opposite B4364 Country Mattters Country Park Kinlet River Severn the library. For current bus timetables and routes CLEE HILLS Arboretum Severn Valley contact traveline on 0871 200 2233 or visit WYRE Steam Railway A4117 FOREST traveline.org.uk B D Cleehill CLEOBURY A4117 ATMs: MORTIMER There are various ATMs located around the town including Co-op, Ironbridge Road and the Spar and Broseley Town Council and the newsagents on the High Street. Library for local and community Public Toilets: information and services, Public toilets are located at the Dark Lane car park Bridgnorth Road, Broseley just off the High Street. Town Council: 01952 882172 • Library: 01952 884119 Petrol Station: Co-op, Ironbridge Road broseleytowncouncil.co.uk For events, shops, accommodation, attractions Half-day closing: Wednesday and more… Churches: visitbroseley.co.uk Church of England, All Saints Church, Church Street Baptist Church, Chapel Lane Methodist Church, Duke Street Doctor: Broseley Medical Practice, Bridgnorth Road (01952) 882854 Designed by MA Creative • www.macreative.co.uk 1 A tour through the town might well start at the ( Return uphill and walk Town Council and Library car park. From the Welcome to Broseley along Cape Street. The Burnt entrance turn right onto Bridgnorth Road heading Broseley has strong links with the early industrial House – so called on account out of town, before taking a left onto Foundry revolution. By the beginning of the 17th Century it of a fire in June 1883 which Lane. Follow the footpath to Church was a thriving industrial settlement having close partly destroyed the building Street. Turning right, links with Coalbrookdale, on the other side of – bears the inscription ‘Inigo continue along the the River Severn. In the 18th and 19th centuries Acton built this in 1742’. street to the Parish it developed into a major centre for coal mining, Church, All Saints, iron manufacture, earthenware manufacture and ) completed in 1845 in a variety of associated activities. The famous Number 2 in a perpendicular style. Queen Street, with its visible Iron Bridge was built in 1779 to link Broseley with This area was the village centre in medieval times. timbered gable end stands as Coalbrookdale and led to the foundation of the Located within the church grounds now stands a Gerry an example of many houses in town of Ironbridge which is now part of a World Foxall sculpture, depicting the more recent mining Broseley which, behind their history of Broseley and surrounding area. Heritage Site. 18th and 19th century facades have a structure going back to 2 Next door is Broseley This early industrial activity has resulted in the 17th century. Hall, which dates from a settlement of remarkable character. The the 1730s. In the late 18th architecture is a mixture of three centuries of * Turn back on Century chimney pieces and building styles in a hilly and wooded setting mixed yourself and turn right a small temple garden were together in a delightfully haphazard manner. into King Street where added by the Shrewsbury Orchard House, architect Thomas Farnolls behind its early 19th Pritchard, who also 8 The Memorial Gardens look out over the site Century railings and designed the Ironbridge. of the old Pritchard Memorial, commemorating gate, retains many of its It retains many 18th Century features: pedimented George Pritchard a local solicitor and banker and 18th Century features. doorcase with fanlight, tall sash windows and a shallow High Sheriff of Shropshire. It is now the site of a Gerry roof hidden by its parapet. Foxall sculpture, previously located at the Ironbridge + Broseley Pipe Museum (part of the power station. Ironbridge Gorge Museum – access from 3 Opposite the Hall Duke Street). “Will you take a Broseley?” became Numbers 6 and 7 form 9 Further up on the left a familiar phrase to smokers in an era when a clay an interesting block. The is the Victoria Hall. Built pipe of tobacco could be purchased across the bar elevation displays two in 1867 as a meeting place of a tavern. There were hundreds of individual pipe shades of the mottled for the Plymouth Brethren, makers in Broseley. The museum traces the history brick made, and used it is now a focus for and process of making clay pipes. Opening times may widely, in Broseley during community activities. The vary – check the website for details. the 19th Century. Number 7 was local tile manufacturers, at one time the Mint for ironmaster John Wilkinson’s Maws, supplied the coinage. decorative tiles for the two gable ends. 4 The Lawns built in 1727, was bought by John Wilkinson ! The Old Butchers Shop in 1763. A new chimney piece Bar. This 18th Century property was designed by Pritchard was re-fronted in 1904 and used and the house was later as a butchers shop until the late leased to John Rose, the 1950s when it became derelict. China manufacturer. The In 1991 it was restored and large bow window was added converted to its present use in the 19th Century. as a bar. The Quaker Burial Ground, where Abraham Darby I is buried, is adjacent to the Broseley Pipe Museum. # At the top of the street 5 Further up the is the Social Club built in , Further down street, opposite a 1750 as a private house and King Street is Holly pleasing terrace of later becoming the Pritchard House, the venue Victorian houses, is Bank. for the first meeting Raddle Hall. Built in 1782 of a newly in 1663, it was at one constituted Court for time the home of the the settling of small local historian John debts. Incensed – Randall. perhaps by outsider $ Angel House, nearby, interference – the 6 Still further up the street, is a has a timber frame structure Reverend John Morgan, Rector of Willey and Barrow, white cottage facing sideways to at the rear but is substantially is reputed to have torn up a copy of the enabling the road. Known locally as the Georgian in style. Above is an Act of Parliament and to have been pursued in ‘Iron-Topped House’ from interesting window with a cast consequence down King Street by creditors, the iron rafters supporting iron frame. Like many houses we assume. its hipped roof, it has in the town it was once an Inn pointed Gothic windows – the etched glass panels at the bu Next door, in and an unusual weather front are a relic of this. one of those curious vane. juxtapositions % Walk back and turn characteristic of right beside the Bank into Broseley, the front and Harris’s Green, which leads to the inside walls of ‘Powell’s 7 Turning left at Baptist Chapel. Dated 1741 Shop’ are faced with a the top of the street, it was built by Isaac Wyke, lavish if rather bizarre around the Ruabon a local surgeon, for the display of local tiles. brick ‘Instone’ block Particular Baptists: (so named after a “A house”, he said bl Around the corner is the local family), one “to cure mad people”. former Legges Hill School reaches The Old The first Evangelical on its steeply sloping site. School. Dating meetings to be held on It was opened in 1892 as from 1855 this was designed by the architect Robert the Shropshire Coalfield the school for Broseley Griffiths in a Gothic style, using the distinctive Broseley took place here. Wesley is believed Wood. In its vicinity blue brick. This building is now a health centre, library to have preached in the Chapel. The are pathways, and Town Council office. adjoining Minister’s house looks known locally as out over a landscape honeycombed Jitties, that lead off On returning to the mini-roundabout, the High Street with underground workings. to rows of cottages stretches uphill lined with three storey shops interspersed with more overlooking the Memorial Gardens. In the early 18th & Near the bottom of imposing houses. Century this was the site of a flooded opencast coal pit Barratts Hill is Tanglewood, used as a fish pond. built in 1742. Thanks to Betsy Smith for these illustrations