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A5 A5 M54 Junc 4 Weston Places of interest: Park THE A458 River WREKIN Boscobel Broseley Pipe Museum (01952 884391) – check for Severn House B4380 M54 opening times. The Museum shows visitors the history Broseley of local tobacco pipe-making. It is one of the sites of the To Abbey Museums RAF Museum 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 garden and a nearby church. Steam Railway B4378 Eardington A458 Broseley Local History Society website: Daniel’s Mill www.broseley.org Cleobury Dudmaston B4555 North B4363 : A442 Local Town Website www.broseleyonline.co.uk CORVE DALE KINVER EDGE Burwarton Nos. 9 & 99 travel between Billingsley Bus services: Stottesdon Rays Farm Severn Valley Bridgnorth & Telford Town Centre/Wellington via B4364 Country Mattters Country Park 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 www.traveline.org.uk A4117 Post Office: High Street Bank: Lloyds TSB Bank, High Street (Limited Broseley Library & 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 , 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: Broseley Health Centre, Bridgnorth Road (01952 882854) Police: For non-emergency calls phone 0345 7 444 888 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 MA Creative • www.macreative.co.uk

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BROSELEY WOOD has a strong individual settlement squatter a as origin Its character. streets, of maze haphazard the in evident is lanes and narrow paths (known as jitties), clinging to the Broseley and Bridge Road. steep slopes between to Benthall Hall & MUCH & Hall Benthall to Griffiths in a Gothic Broseley has strong links with the early . 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 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. dates from the 1730s. Hall. Built in 1663, it was at Built in 1867 as a In the late 18th Century one time the home of the local meeting place for the chimney pieces and a historian John Randall. Plymouth Brethren, small temple garden were it is now a focus for added by the Shrewsbury 6 Still further up the street, is a white community activities. architect Thomas Farnolls cottage facing sideways to the road. The local tile Pritchard who also Known locally as the ‘Iron-Topped manufacturers, Maws, supplied the decorative tiles designed the Ironbridge. It retains many 18th Century House’ from the iron rafters for the two gable ends. features: pedimented doorcase with fanlight, tall sash supporting its hipped roof, it has windows and a shallow roof hidden by its parapet. pointed Gothic windows and an unusual weather vane. ! The Old Butchers Shop Bar. This 18th Century 3 Opposite the Hall property was re-fronted in Numbers 6 and 7 form 7 Turning left at the 1904 and used as a butchers an interesting block. The top of the street, around shop until the late 1950s when elevation displays two the Ruabon brick ‘Instone’ it became derelict. In 1991 it shades of the mottled block (so named after a was restored and converted brick made, and used local family), one reaches The Old School. Dating to its present use; opening in widely, in Broseley during from 1855 this was designed by the architect Robert 1994. # At the top of the ( Return uphill and walk along The Quaker Burial Ground, where Abraham Darby I street is the Social Club Cape Street. The Burnt House – so is buried, is adjacent to the Broseley Pipe Museum. built in 1750 as a private called on account of a fire in June house and later becoming 1883 which partly destroyed the , Further down the Pritchard Bank. building – bears the inscription King Street is ‘Inigo Acton built this in 1742’. Holly House – the venue for the first meeting in 1782, of a newly ) Number 2 in Queen constituted Court $ Angel House, Street, with its visible timbered for the settling nearby, has a timber frame gable end, may stand as an of small debts. structure at the rear but instance of many houses in Incensed – perhaps by outsider interference – the is substantially Georgian Broseley which, behind their Reverend John Morgan, Rector of Willey and Barrow, in style. Above is an 18th and 19th Century facades, is reputed to have torn up a copy of the enabling Act of interesting window with a have a structure going back to a much earlier period. Parliament and to have been pursued in consequence frame. Like many down King Street – by creditors, we assume. houses in the town it was * Turn back on yourself once an Inn – the etched and turn right into King Street bu Next door, in glass panels at the front where Orchard House, one of those curious are a relic of this. behind its early 19th Century juxtapositions railings and gate, retains characteristic of % Walk back and turn right many of its 18th Century Broseley, the front beside the Bank into Harris’s features. and inside walls of Green, which leads to ‘Powell’s Shop’ are the Baptist Chapel. + Broseley Pipe faced with a lavish if Dated 1741 it was Museum (Part of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum rather bizarre display of built by Isaac Wyke, Access from Duke Street). “Will you take a local tiles. a local surgeon, Broseley?” became a familiar phrase to smokers in an for the Particular era when a clay pipe of tobacco could be purchased bl Around the corner is Baptists: “A house”, across the bar of a tavern. There were hundreds the former Legges Hill he said “to cure mad of individual pipe makers in Broseley. The recently School on its steeply people”. The first Evangelical meetings to be held on restored Pipe Works, now open to the public (limited sloping site. It was the Shropshire Coalfield took place here. Wesley is opening hours, please phone to check), traces the opened in 1892 believed to have preached in the history and process of making clay pipes. as the school for Chapel. The adjoining Minister’s Broseley Wood. house looks out over a landscape In its vicinity honeycombed with underground pathways (jitties), workings. now the subject of care and restoration, lead off & Near the bottom of the to rows of cottages interspersed with more imposing hill is Tanglewood built, as houses. the plaque indicates, in 1742. Thanks to Betsy Smith for these illustrations