Walks and Strolls Around Bridgnorth

Walks and Strolls around Bridgnorth

Discover Shropshire An Introduction to Bridgnorth

Bridgnorth is made up of two towns; the High Town and the Low Town. The Low Town was once a thriving port along the banks of the River Severn, whilst the High Town held the churches, castles and fine mansions.

To tap into the wealth of information about Bridgnorth visit Bridgnorth Visitor Information Centre, Library and Local History Centre: Listley Street, Bridgnorth WV16 4AW Email: [email protected] Tel: 01746 763257 Open all year Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 9.30am – 5pm. Also April – October, Thursday 10am – 1pm and 2pm – 5pm If you would like to find information on other walks to enjoy around Bridgnorth or throughout the rest of Shropshire visit www.shropshirewalking.co.uk. Or if you would like to explore more about Bridgnorth and Shropshire’s landscape, people, nature and history visit www.discovershropshire.org.uk

Shropshire Council Countryside Access Team, Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6ND Tel: (0845) 678 9000 Website: www.shropshire.gov.uk

2 Whether you are a visitor to Bridgnorth, new to the area or a local this booklet has something to offer you.

It contains a number of circular walks around Bridgnorth’s countryside, through its unique town, and along the banks of the River Severn.

If you are after a short route up to 4 miles long that’s not too difficult but can keep you fit and healthy why not follow one of the Walking for Life! routes. A whole day out might take your fancy; if so take a picnic and follow one of the longer options described inside.

All of the walks offer a great variety of scenery, from enjoying the wildlife on the river to experiencing the fabulous views of the surrounding rolling countryside. Walking is fun, free and can be done anywhere! 3 Countryside Code

From a gentle stroll to a long-distance walk, the countryside provides every opportunity for enjoyment and relaxation.

● Be safe – plan ahead and follow any signs ● Leave gates and property as you find them ● Protect plants and animals, and take your litter home ● Keep dogs under close control ● Consider other people

If you follow the Countryside Code wherever you go, you’ll get the best enjoyment possible and you’ll help to protect the countryside now and for future generations.

Key for Maps

Grading – routes are graded by terrain and Key to symbols inclines, not by distance: Walking for Life! route Easy terrain, occasional inclines Long route option Parking Toilets Moderate terrain, moderate inclines Footbridge Stile Gate Difficult terrain, very steep inclines Church

4 Contents

Walk 1: Oldbury to Eardington Pages 6-8

START / FINISH: Listley Street North Car Park, Bridgnorth WV16 4AW (Pay and Display) Facilities nearby: WC, Library, shops

DISTANCE: Walking for Life! Route: 3 km/ 1.8 miles Long option: 6.2km/ 3.8 miles

Walk 2: Astley Abbotts Pages 9-12

START/ FINISH: Innage Lane Car Park, Bridgnorth, WV16 4EU (Pay and Display) Facilities nearby: WC, Leisure Centre, Golf Course, shops

DISTANCE: Walking for Life! Route: 6km/ 3.7miles Long option: 13.5km/ 8.4miles

Walk 3: Quatford Pages 13-15

START/FINISH: Severn Street Car Park, Bridgnorth WV15 6BB (Pay and Display) Facilities nearby: WC, shops

DISTANCE: Walking for Life! Route: 5km/ 3 miles Long option: 8km/ 5 miles

Walk 4: High Rock and Bromley Pages 16-19

START/FINISH: Severn Park Car Park WV15 5AG (Pay and Display) Facilities nearby: Play area, picnic tables

DISTANCE: High Rock Route: 4km/ 2.5miles (N.B. this is not a Walking for Life! route as it involves some steep climbs and more difficult terrain) Long option: 7.5km/ 4.7miles 5 Walk 1: Oldbury to Eardington

Walking for Life! 8 Turn left at the T-junction and Route Directions continue along the road to another T-junction. 1 Start at Listley Street Car Park, 9 Turn left at the T-junction, past a cross straight over the road onto small church on your left. Railway Street and continue to a T-junction. 10 Immediately after the church turn left following the footpath sign 2 At the T-junction cross straight over across the church car park to a onto a hardcore track (signposted stile in the top right hand corner. Severn Valley Railway SVR). Once over the stile follow the left 3 Just as you approach the station hand hedge to another stile at the take a waymarked footpath bottom of the field. uphill to your right (just through a 11 Once over the stile turn left onto a gateway). footpath. 4 At the top of the footpath continue 12 Take the first right over the straight across the school playing bypass footbridge and follow the fields towards a brick building; footpath left handed back onto pass the brick building on your the school fields. right and continue to a stile in the top right hand corner. 13 Continue towards and past the brick building on your left and 5 Go over the stile and follow the follow the line of the church in the path onto a footbridge over the distance to a footpath on the far bypass. side of the fields. 6 Once over the footbridge turn 14 Continue down the footpath and right onto Cycle Route 45 turn left at the bottom onto a Mercian Way and continue until track. you reach a small lane. 15 When you reach the road cross 7 Continue straight up the lane, straight over onto Railway Street. around a left hand bend to a T-junction. 16 At the top of Railway Street cross straight over the road back into the car park. 6 River Severn

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Oldbury Church at Point 10 Quatford Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Shropshire County Council 100019801. 2009 7 Longer Route Directions H Continue through a gate in front of the house, and bear right Follow Walking for Life! route up towards a wood. Once in the to point 7 wood follow the waymarkers left handed out of the wood back towards the house and follow the A Continue up lane and then turn left hand hedge down the field onto a footpath on your right just over two stiles in the bottom left before a left hand bend in the hand corner. lane. Once in the field keep to the right hand fence and continue I One over the stile head across until you reach a stile in the far the field to another stile onto the corner to rejoin lane. road. Cross straight over onto a footpath directly opposite you. B Continue straight ahead onto the lane for a couple of minutes to a J Follow the footpath to a stile, marked footpath on your left. once over the stile bear right towards another stile in the C On footpath head diagonally distance. right across field to a gateway on the far side onto the road. K Once over stile walk straight ahead up the field to the top D Cross straight over the road onto hedge where you will see a track and then immediately another stile hidden in the trees. bear right to cross another field Once over stile, head to the right keeping the two oak trees on of copse and pond over stile onto your right to a stile in the hedge. road. E Once over the stile turn left, and L Very carefully turn left onto the follow the hedge line to a hard road (cross over and walk on the core track to Westwood Farm. right hand side). Continue along F Continue up the track and bear the road until you reach a small left before the large shed to walk church on your left. along the track between a house and a cottage. Follow the Walking for Life! directions from point number 10 G When the track bears left back towards the road, turn right and over a stile, and bear left.

8 Walk 2: Astley Abbotts

7 Turn left over the stile and follow the footpath on to a track. Continue down the track, past Little Severn Hall. 8 Turn left and follow road past the golf club until a sharp right-hand bend, just after a small bridge. 9 Turn left onto Bramble Ridge and retrace route up footpath to Love View from River Severn Lane and then Cliff Road. 10 Cross the road and turn right to Walking for Life! return to the car park. Route Directions Longer Route Directions 1 Start in Innage Lane Car Park next to fire station and cross A Park in the Innage car park next road at the crossing to William to Fire Station. Turn right and Williams Builders Merchants and walk up Innage Lane to T-junction turn left towards Town Centre. B Turn left up the Hookfield to the 2 By the Bear Inn cross the road and junction with Victoria Road. go up Cliff Road around sharp left-hand bend into Love Lane. C Turn right onto Victoria Road. 3 Turn right to take footpath down D At the shops turn left into the to Bramble Ridge estate. Hook Farm Road estate, walking towards Hook Farm. Bear right 4 At the end of the footpath turn left down track over stile. At second into the housing estate. stile bear left across field to 5 Near end of estate turn right corner of woodland, (Trinity through kissing gate to cross Wood) follow footpath over playing fields to The River footbridge and stiles to the road. Severn/ The Severn Way. E Turn right and walk up the road 6 Turn left and follow The Severn past the water tower and church Way through to the end of the to the track to Kingsley Farm on golf course over the stile. your right. 9 D A442 O A R R E T S I N M R E D D I K

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V W S E D Y D N E Y C O F Turn right down the track and go H Walk through the village past the T T A G E D R I V E H O O K F A through the gate on your right as private driveway and Lodge to R M B4373 R O indicated by bridleway signpost. Stanley Hall and through the gate A D on the right into a field. Follow

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L E estwood H cottage to the road. I Turn right and follow the road. Cottages C R W U H C G Cross the road and turn left and J Turn left after a couple of minutes immediately right to Astley Abbots through a metal gate into a Kingsley Farm and Colemore Green. wood. Continue to ‘old railway B4364 track’ where turn left until stile on E Astley Abbots is a picturesque village right for access to Severn Way Tasley with pleasant houses and a fine church. footpath.

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Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. F Shropshire County Council 100019801. 2009 11 About half a mile north of Bridgnorth, Fort Pendlestone can be seen on the opposite bank. The present building, was erected by William Whitmore, in 1854 from sandstone hewn from the cliffs behind. These culminate in a view point known as High Rock which is featured in Walk 2. The Fort occupies the site of a former cornmill built in 1225 but this was destroyed by fire.

This is a beautiful stretch of the Severn K Turn right and follow riverside with wooded sandstone cliffs bordering path over a series of fields and the eastern bank. Today’s peaceful and stiles all through the golf course tranquil river scene is very different to cross a metal and concrete to that of earlier centuries when the footbridge Severn was a very important trading L Just after footbridge turn right route. Barge traffic plied between across playing field to a kissing Shropshire, Worcester, Gloucester and gate. Bristol. The main trade was in goods, but during the 18th century, passenger M Turn left, go through the estate, vessels known as wherries provided then up a track indicated by a a service between Shrewsbury, signpost to the road. Worcester and Gloucester. Although the barges were equipped with sails, N Turn left and follow Love Lane they were hauled up-stream by gangs and Cliff Road to the junction by of men, until the establishment of Northgate. Cross the road, then proper towpaths at the end of the 18th turn right and follow tarmac path century allowed the use of horses. back to the Innage car park.

The lack of weirs and locks to main Caves along River Severn from K navigable depths, meant that in periods of drought or low rainfall, the river traffic came to a standstill. The construction of the canal networks and the coming of the railways spelt the end of the river trade. The barges in use on the Severn were known as’ Trows’.

12 Walk 3: Quatford

4 Carefully cross over the A442 and turn left. Continue along the pavement, past a farm track on your right. 5 Immediately after the farm track turn right up Old Worcester Road and continue until you approach a roundabout. 6 On approaching the roundabout Quatford Castle at point J-K turn right and cross over the Walking for Life! Stourbridge Road (A458) and take the right hand road towards Route Directions Bridgnorth.

1 From the Severn Street Car Park 7 Just before the junction with the turn right onto Severn Street to the A442 fork right onto a narrow footbridge to the Bylet Bowling road (Bernards Hill) and continue Green. until you reach the end of the road. 2 Do not cross the bridge, instead turn left before the bridge and go 8 Carefully cross straight over the through the metal cycle barriers road and return to the car park onto the riverside path. Continue where you started. along the riverside path (River Severn on your right) under the Cave between points F & G bypass, through a kissing gate and over a series of four stiles. 3 Once over the fourth stile continue along the riverside path for approximately 25 meters and then turn left, walk straight across the field until you come in line with a field boundary on your left. Continue along field boundary until you reach the road (A442). 13 River Severn

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A R again up Old Worcester Road O A D and continue until you approach F a roundabout. Westwood A442 Cottages E Follow directions on the Walking B for Life route from point 6 C D Quatford

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Quatford Walk 4: High Rock & Bromley

High Rock Route Directions

1 Exit the Severn Park onto the A442, carefully cross over the road and turn left. 2 Take first road on right and follow it up to the cemetery. 3 Just before the cemetery gates turn left up some steep steps and follow them to the top (cemetery is down to your right). View from point 4 5 Turn right and continue along the narrow path overlooking the golf course and river below to your left. 6 When you reach the enclosed wood bear right and follow the track past a farm and cottages on your right until you reach the road at Fenn Gate. Here you can either follow the directions below back to the start or add on an extra loop – see extra loop directions Cemetery gates at point 3 7 Turn immediately right and go 4 At top of steps bear right and over a stile, head straight ahead follow the path along the wire across the farm drive and over fence into the wood. Continue another stile into a field. along the main footpath all the way through the wood until you 8 Head straight across the field to reach the edge of the ridge a metal gate you can see in the overlooking the golf course. distance.

17 9 Once over the gate continue straight on towards the wood. 10 Keep to the left of the wood and continue until you see a stile on your right taking you back into the wood. 11 Go over the stile back into the wood and turn left; back onto the track you came Bromley telephone box at point B into the wood on. C Once over the stile head 12 Retrace you steps back to diagonally left down the hill to the cemetery (when the track another stile. branches keep to the right hand path) and then back down the D Once over the stile turn right and road to the Severn Park. follow the hedge line until you reach a stile in the hedge on your Extra Loop – Bromley right. E Climb over the stile and walk to To add this extra loop to Bromley, the left of the water works and follow the High Rock directions up over two more stiles until you to point 7 and then pick up the come out onto a hardcore track. directions below F Turn left onto the track and follow A When you reach the road turn the path over a footbridge and left and follow the narrow road past Rindleford Mill on your right. for approx 15 minutes towards Bromley. Continue into Bromley Rindleford Mill at point F until you see a red telephone box on your right just after a left hand bend. B Turn right onto the track by the telephone box and then immediately right over a stile into a field. Once over the stile continue ahead to the stile you can see in front of you.

18 G Turn right to go around the rear of Rindleford Mill (follow finger post), turn right immediately to follow another finger post and go over two more footbridges and a stile. H Follow the path for 50 metres (River Worfe on left) then branch right onto another path. Continue on this path for approximately 20 minutes until you reach a metal gate. I Go through the metal gate and turn immediately left onto a narrow path to a stile at the end. J Once over the stile River Worfe, points continue up the centre G-H of the field until you reach a track on your right. Turn right onto the boundary on your right all the track to a metal gate. way to a gate which takes you onto a road at Fenn Gate. K Go through the metal gate and head diagonally right towards a M Turn right onto the road and then waymarker in the field boundary immediately left over a stile into a on your right. field head, straight ahead across the farm drive and over another L When you reach the field stile and continue with the High boundary turn left and follow the Rock directions from number 8.

19 It’s never too late

There is no such thing as “too old to exercise”. Whatever your age or current level of fitness you can benefit from doing a bit more physical activity. Try to get out and walk as much as possible within your own limitations.

Build it into your daily routine Listen to your body Any activity is better than none; but to If you feel any dizziness or pain get the most benefit you need to do whilst walking, slow down or stop at least 30 minutes moderate physical completely and take a rest. If the activity on at least 5 days of the problem continues, consult your doctor week. before walking again.

Moderate activity is anything which Keep active and keep the benefits involves: Any health benefits you have gained • Breathing a little faster will be lost if you don’t continue to be • Having a slightly faster heart beat active. • Feeling warmer Contact Details You should aim to reach a single If you enjoy the walking routes session of 30 minutes but you can in this leaflet and would like to break this down into walk with other people then why • 3 x 10 minutes not join one of the Walking for • 2 x 15 minutes Health groups in your area. You can attend either as a visitor or a Start at your own level regular and it is free of charge. Start at a level that suits you; there For further information please is no point wearing yourself out on contact: your first walk. Start gradually, set yourself small targets and goals, and Shropshire Council, build slowly from there; small changes Countryside Access Team, can make a big difference, the most important thing is to make a start. Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6ND Artwork by MA Creative • www.macreative.co.uk Tel: (0845) 678 9000 www.shropshire.gov.uk Find out more about Walking for Health at www.whi.org.uk