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Town Guide 2020 FREE SHREWSBURY TOWN GUIDE 2020 originalshrewsbury.co.uk Top - bottom: Theatre Severn, Wyle Cop, Charles Darwin and Mary Webb statues in School Gardens, Butcher Row, The Square, Quarry Park, St Chad’s Church, Sabrina Boat. WELCOME Shrewsbury loves people and we hope the feeling is Arrive 5 mutual. You can easily explore the town centre on foot, bike or boat and discover plenty along the way. It’s Discover 7 not just a place full of flowers, medieval passages and café culture, Shrewsbury is packed with independent Eat 11 and national shops, restaurants and bars as well as must-visit international festivals. Drink 15 If you need more information call the Visitor Shop 19 Information Centre on 01743 258888, pop into it’s office in the Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery or ask Map 24 one of the Shrewsbury Ambassadors you’ll see around town from Easter until August . Events 27 YOU CAN’T COPY SHREWSBURY Explore 29 Do 33 Enjoy 36 Roam 39 48 Hours 42 Stay 45 For more information visit orginalshrewsbury.co.uk & visitshropshire.co.uk ORIGINAL SHREWSBURY AMBASSADORS From 11th April until late September visitors to Shrewsbury can discover the full range of what the town has to offer thanks to our team of Ambassadors. The Ambassadors, introduced in 2019, work alongside the Shrewsbury Town Guides and help visitors discover the hidden gems in the town. Ambassadors are on duty on them at points throughout the town Saturdays and Sundays from 10am and they can be spotted wearing to 2pm. Their aim is provide a better their bright blue tops and a experience for visitors and to help welcoming smile! them make the most of all that You can also volunteer by going to the Shrewsbury has to offer. You’ll find website below. For more information: t: 01743 358626 | w: originalshrewsbury.co.uk Shrewsbury BID working in partnership with Shrewsbury Town Council and Shrewsbury Tourism Association ARRIVE Castle Street and Shrewsbury Library There are many ways to get to Shrewsbury, from the Grade II listed railway station to Roman roads and bridges crossing Britain’s longest river, the River Severn. Don’t take our word for it though, come and see for yourself. BY CAR There are two daily National your badge and clock must Shrewsbury is accessible via Express Coach services from still be on display. All Park & the A5 and M54. From Monday London with connections from Ride buses are wheelchair to Saturday there is a Park & other towns on the network, accessible and normal charges Ride service directly into the all stopping in the town apply. For more advice call town centre every 20 minutes centre. For more information the Car Park Service Office on from three car parks (see p47). please call 08717 818178 or visit 01743 356628. www.nationalexpress.com. You can travel for half price if Raven Meadows car park runs you have an English bus pass. TAXIS a Shopmobility service. Electric scooters and wheelchairs are There are a number of Pay & There is a taxi rank at the train available for hire. Reservations Display car parks in the town station or you can phone: (see p47). Parking is free all are recommended. The service day Sunday at Frankwell and ABC Cars 01743 545454 is available from Monday to Abbey Foregate car parks. Shrewsbury Taxis 01743 242424 Saturday, 9.30am - 4.30pm. Raven Meadows multi-storey Go Carz 01743 441144 Please call 01743 236900 car park is open 24/7. for details. DISABLED ACCESS If you’re in a camper van, you There are designated spaces can park at the Park & Ride with time restrictions on sites and at Abbey Foregate Shoplatch, Castle Street, St. It’s a fact...! car park. Mary’s Street, Claremont The largest operational Street, Princess Street, High BY TRAIN OR COACH Street and Roushill, but make mechanical signal box There are direct train services sure your badge and clock are (in terms of levers) in to and from Birmingham, on display. Europe is Shrewsbury’s Cardiff, Holyhead, London Severn Bridge Junction The car parks have disabled and Manchester. 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The as she gently sails around the Museum tells the stories that river loop with live commentary. -02 Taking make Shropshire unique through its’ amazing galleries: THE CASTLE AND ABBEY Super-fast WiFi,, award-winningaward • BIOTOP natural swimming pool Bookings Roman Gallery, Shropshire Roger de Montgomery built dedesign toilet facilitiesies anand a park • Sun deck with coffee bar & pizzeria Now! Gallery, Medieval, Tudor and both the Castle and the concconcierge service. Activityctivity • Evening movie cinedrome Stuart Galleries and the Special Abbey, just after the Norman • Children’s play adventure zone proprogrammesrogrra for all thee famfamily from Exhibition Gallery. Conquest of 1066. The stone stargazingargaazing to den-building,ing an • Hot tubs A recent addition to the town castle you see today was onsitesite pilatepilates/yoga studio,io, gym and • Recreational fishing Lake is the Soden Collection. The rebuilt around one hundred personalrso traintraining. • Pilates & yoga studio gallery is at 80 Wyle Cop years later but you can still see • Spa with treatment rooms and houses an ever-changing the mound where the original Locatedoca justt ououtside thehe bbeautiful • Fitness suite selection of contemporary art once stood. marmarket townn of Shrewsburywsbu within • Hot springs pool & giant beach and sculptures. a sstones throwow of the WWelsh borders Shrewsbury Abbey was also 01 Laura’s Tower A must-see is the converted the setting of another famous and boasts fantfantasticastic vviews towards For more information: 02 The Old Market Hall, The Square the Wrekin anandnd ththe South www.love2stay.co.uk prison, known locally as The monk, Ellis Peters’ eponymous Dana. Built in 1793, it closed in but fictional detective, Brother Shropshireirere HillsHiHills. Tel: 01743 583 124 originalshrewsbury.co.uk | 7 -01 Cadfael. You can follow a poet, was local to the area. He masterpiece with interesting special Cadfael trail around was killed in action just one stained-glass windows by the Abbey. week before the signing of the Margaret Rope and beautiful Armistice Treaty. His mother architecture to admire. POETRY AND CHURCHES was notified of his death as The original St Chad’s was Wilfred Owen, the Great War the local church bells were founded in the 9th Century rung to celebrate the end but the church you see today, -02 of the war and his memorial with the largest circular stands in the grounds of knave in the country, was Shrewsbury Abbey. built in 1792. In the graveyard In A Shropshire Lad, the poet to the back of the church A.E. Housman enthusiastically is Ebenezer Scrooge’s portrays the ‘steepled crest’ tombstone - a left over prop of the Shrewsbury skyline. from A Christmas Carol, Those steeples belong to which was filmed in 1983, with the beautiful churches of many proud Salopians playing St Mary’s, St Chad’s, St Julian’s supporting roles. and St Alkmund’s. At the top of Butcher Row, set St Mary’s lays claim to a in its own secluded square, 500-year-old medieval spire, is St Alkmund’s, where it is one of the tallest in England. possible to see a copy of Reni’s However, St Mary’s prized Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the East window treasure is the world-famous and lastly St Julian’s with its 14th-century Jesse stained 12th-century tower and its glass window.
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