For Your Information Broseley Location Your map of A5 A5 M54 Junc 4 Weston Places of interest: Park THE A458 River WREKIN Shifnal Boscobel Broseley Pipe Museum (01952 884391) – check for Severn TELFORD House B4380 M54 opening times. The Museum shows visitors the history Broseley Ironbridge of local tobacco pipe-making. It is one of the sites of the To Shrewsbury Buildwas Abbey Ironbridge Gorge Museums RAF Museum Benthall Hall Cosford Ironbridge Gorge Museum. (Museum car park in Duke Wenlock Museum & A4169 Street). Wenlock Priory BROSELEY Sutton Hughley B4371 Maddock Benthall Hall (National Trust) (01952 882159) MUCH A442 WENLOCK B4373 – check for opening times. The Hall is a beautiful 16th Bourton A458 Worfield Century stone house with a stunning interior. There is A454 WENLOCK EDGE B4368 Morville also a carefully restored plantsman’s garden, old kitchen Shipton BRIDGNORTH garden and a nearby church. Severn Valley Steam Railway B4378 Eardington A458 Broseley Local History Society website: Ditton Priors Daniel’s Mill Quatt www.broseley.org Cleobury Dudmaston B4555 North B4363 : A442 Local Town Website www.broseleyonline.co.uk CORVE DALE KINVER EDGE Burwarton Highley Nos. 9 & 99 travel between Billingsley Bus services: Stottesdon Rays Farm Severn Valley Bridgnorth & Telford Town Centre/Wellington via B4364 Country Mattters Country Park Kinlet River Severn Broseley. The main bus stop is in Bridgnorth Road, CLEE HILLS Arboretum Severn Valley opposite the Library. For timetable details phone WYRE Steam Railway Traveline on 0870 608 2 608 or visit the website A4117 Cleehill FOREST BEWDLEY www.traveline.org.uk CLEOBURY MORTIMER A4117 Post Office: High Street Bank: Lloyds TSB Bank, High Street (Limited Broseley Library & Shropshire Opening) Various ATMs around town Customer First Point Petrol Station: (no. 7 on map. Limited Opening Hours) Co-Operative Stores, Ironbridge Road Bridgnorth Road, Broseley Half-day closing Wednesday Tel: (01952 884119) Churches: Email: [email protected] Church of England, All Saints Church, Church Street As well as providing information about all the above and much Roman Catholic, St. Winifred’s Church, Barber Street more besides, the Library has details of hotels, guest houses and caravan/campsites. Baptist Church, Chapel Lane Methodist Church, Duke Street Doctors: • www.macreative.co.uk Broseley Health Centre, Bridgnorth Road (01952 882854) Creative Police: For non-emergency calls phone 0345 7 444 888 MA Veterinary Practices: Old Pound Veterinary Centre, Ironbridge Road (01952 883859) This leaflet can be made available in large print, audio tape or braille formats on request. Please contact 01952 884119 for further details. Designed by to Coalbrookdale & SHREWSBURY to TELFORD & M54 TH IRONBRIDGE E WH 73 AR EY ROAD B43 FAGE TONTINE HILL MADEL The Iron Bridge WA TERLO O STREET R I V E R S E V E R N BENTHALL EDGE Jackeld TH IRON E LLOYDS BRIDGE Bridge Broseley Wood ROAD LADYWOOD BROSELEY WOOD has a strong individual IRO N LL BR OY character. Its origin as a squatter settlement I D to Coalport & museums DG S E HE is evident in the haphazard maze of streets, RO AD AD lanes and narrow paths (known as jitties), B 43 clinging to the steep slopes between 73 Broseley and Bridge Road. WORKHOUSE A D COPPICE C R O O S BW T E T LL C A U U RO L C SPO T LANE A S L A N E D B A L L I Museum to Jackfield Tile A H D B JACKFIELD D D A G A J O R O C A D R Y F O R E S R Cricket Club E K R N D A A G U L D Q D BROSELEY WOOD I A S R O H R M M O Cricket B S O W I Ground M L R E P C S KI G R N S D O E T S CHE A N N R R O E S R R O E Y L T B L A Factory L R N Works E O W E O Y D P K N T A LIZABETH D R E CW B E R 21 ES R I C E N ANE E L E D CKSHUT T D N CO N A R T A 20 S O E T L O R N S A R R E H L E 19 C G E Y N D R T G E R N O T A U S L U A N F U L K B L I E N H I S K K D S S E LAN T K R L E D C AL R A E H B E O T 4 18 D N 37 E E C Broseley CofE E 5 Q B P 17 T Primary School S 16 T EN ST E QUE Birchmeadow E R Centre 14 T S B CH B E 15 IR M ARR P A BI B EA A A R D T R C O TS C H ME W H B A I D 3 L E O L W 7 R RO 3 4 to Benthall Hall & MUCH WENLOCK A E S D T B N The Haycop R A 12 N L Conservation Area E E E D L E R A E HARR IS’S G T P W 13 O A 11 BROSELEY O H R C O D H E H I G O G 10 M U H D I S I L E R L R S L B AN D 9 T Key to E R N E E O R T I the Jitties HOCKL 8 EY ROAD Cemetery P 7 6 A C A Pughs Jitty R HUR K C 5 V H Maidens Jitty IE B W S TR C Maypole Jitty EE 2 T John Wilkinson B Bradleys Bank 4 1 D B 3 Primary School EN 7 R V U 5 A E E Goughs Jitty I D N OA D 4 T R O POR F Crews Park G S OAL N C I N 3 F K Simmonds Jitty L O G Points of interest (see overleaflef) O I 1-21 R W G H L E U A R The King & Thai at R O N Mission Jitty S E H Library and Shropshire T T H The Foresters Arms E I Carters Jitty Customer First Point to Coalport China Museum & M54 P G R R D O U A R Gittings Jitty O U E J O S O Car park N T A A R D D R K Jews Jitty E D U L O A A Coach park N D L Ferny Bank E N B V E 4 A 3 T Balls Jitty M H Public toilet 7 3 E N Lloyds Jitty B A Place of worship T C O Ding-Dong C A H U E G Steps Petrol station S H L L A E P Plants Jitty N Y Bus stop E R O Q Boss Well Bank AD R Coopers Jitty Footpath to BRIDGNORTH Griffiths in a Gothic Broseley has strong links with the early industrial revolution. Welcome to Broseley style, using the By the beginning of the 17th Century it was a thriving industrial distinctive Broseley settlement having close links with Coalbrookdale, on the other side of the River Severn. In the 18th and 19th centuries blue brick. This it developed into a major centre for coal mining, iron manufacture, earthenware manufacture and a variety of building is now a associated activities. The famous Iron Bridge was built in 1779 to link Broseley with Coalbrookdale and led to the health centre and foundation of the town of Ironbridge which is now part of a World Heritage Site. This early industrial activity has library. resulted in a settlement of remarkable character. The architecture is a mixture of three centuries of building styles in a hilly and wooded setting mixed together in a delightfully haphazard manner. Retracing one’s footsteps one comes to the High Street with its line of three storey shops which overlook the Memorial 1 A tour through the town might well start at the 19th Century. Number 7 was at one time the Mint Gardens. In the early 18th Century this was the site of the The King and Thai at The Foresters Arms for ironmaster John Wilkinson’s coinage. a flooded opencast coal pit used as a fish pond. where there is a large car park. 4 The Lawns built in 1727, 8 The Memorial Gardens look out over the site From there one was bought by John Wilkinson in of the old Pritchard Memorial. This is the remnant may walk up the 1763. A new chimney piece was of a memorial fountain built as an improvement to both winding Church designed by Pritchard and the the appearance and the water supply of Broseley. It Street. On the house was later leased to John commemorated George Pritchard, the local solicitor right is the Parish Church, All Saints, probably the Rose, the China manufacturer. and banker, who became High Sheriff of Shropshire. fourth Church on the site. This area was the village The large bow window was The fountain was designed by Robert Griffiths and had centre in medieval times. The church was completed added in the 19th Century. a tall Gothic canopy resting on four arches. in 1845, in a Perpendicular style. 5 Further up the street, 9 Further up 2 Next door is opposite a pleasing terrace of on the left is the Broseley Hall, which Victorian houses, is Raddle Victoria Hall.