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HIGHLIGHTS AROUND SHREWSBURY Black Birches House which dates back to the 12th century. It has a popular tea room which Attingham Park A note on where to start is open daily and offers a discount for cyclists. The route shown on this map starts at Shrewsbury Sports Village on Sundorne Road and www.countrygardenroses.co.uk leaves Shrewsbury via route 81. This facility is a good place to start as it has a car park and toilets and is on the main cycle route through Shrewsbury. However, as the Shrewsbury Merrington Green cycleway is a circular route, you can start at any point along it. To avoid cycling on the A5, the A peaceful wooded nature reserve showing main trunk road around Shrewsbury, it is best to exit the town using either NCN Route 81 (to no traces of its history as a US army camp the west or east) or NCN Route 44 (to the south); these routes are also shown on the map. during World War II. A note on route options on the west side of Shrewsbury The A458 at Ford is a busy trunk road with a very narrow footway. Therefore, many cyclists may wish to avoid this section of route. The alternative option to avoid Ford is to follow National Cycle Network routes 81 and 44 into Shrewsbury and out again and leaving/joining Attingham Park is an elegant 18th century the main cycleway route at Arscott and Montford Bridge. This option is shown on the map. mansion with Regency interiors set in an extensive deer park. It is managed by the Cycle-friendly places to stop National Trust. When the park is open it is along the route for a break more pleasant to cycle on the road through or picnic Churncote Farm Shop the park than use the road which runs alongside it. The National Trust offers free Haughmond Hill Café Farm shop and café open daily, serving lunch entry to the park grounds if you arrive by Haughmond Hill is a pretty hill east of and breakfast. www.churncote.co.uk bicycle. The shop is open year round; the Shrewsbury maintained by the Forestry café has seasonal opening times, check Polemere Commission. It’s a nice place to walk with website for details. good views. The café is open daily. A recently-created nature reserve with a glacial lake formed in the last ice age at its www.nationaltrust.org.uk/attingham-park Haughmond Abbey centre, which is a haven for waterfowl. There is also a café at Home Farm in the A short detour from the main route, these park grounds. extensive ruins of an Augustinian abbey Lyth Hill www.homefarmattingham.co.uk. which was probably founded in the 12th As you cycle, you will have a good view of Lyth Hill to the north. The hill is accessible by bicycle; if you fancy a bit of a detour to Family friendly ride see some fantastic panoramic views, you Looking for a shorter, family-friendly cycle route? We recommend National century, are worth a visit. Managed by can climb the hill along the Shropshire Way from Exford’s Green (unsurfaced). Cycle Network route 81 from the Quarry English Heritage the abbey is open to the in Shrewsbury town centre to Uffington. public Wednesday-Sunday from March to A detailed map and description of this October. www.english-heritage.org.uk/ route is available in our Family Friendly daysout/properties/haughmond-abbey Rides: Traffic Free Adventures leaflet. For a longer ride with on-road sections, Astley why not continue on to Attingham Astley is a pretty village with a medieval Park? Try the routes featured in our church which dates back to the 12th Shrewsbury Cycle Rides leaflet. century. Shropshire Cycleway SHREWSBURY CIRCULAR Grinshill 0 1 2 3 Kilometres Harmer Hill Haston 0 1 2 Miles A528 Merrington NORTH Prescott Pim Shawbury Walford Hill River Perry Hadnall Shawbury Old Wood Preston Heath Gubbals Little Ness Yeaton Walford Heath Route 45 Bomere Heath Pigeons Grafton Rough Astley A53 Yeaton Peverey Leaton A49 Albrighton Bings Heath Battlefield Ebreywood Mytton Isle Pool 1403 B5067 Ebury Hill A5 B5062 Bickley Haughton Coppice Hencott Harlescott Wood Montford Bridge Haughmond Abbey Route 81 Shrewsbury Greenacres Shrawardine Holly Primary Sports Village School Bicton Coppice Montford Harlescott Ditherington B4380 Uffington Ford Shelton Haughmond B4393 Shrewsbury Monkmoor Hill Route 81 Onslow Park Bicton Grange Copthorne Primary Heath School A458 Shoot Hill Grange River Severn Upton Magna School Rad Brook Belle Vue Preston A5 Longner Hall B4386 River Tern Sundorne Meole School Hanwood Bank Yockleton Brace Sundorne Attingham Park Infant Nox School Cruckton Rea B4380 Cruckmeole A5 Brook Bicton CE Primary Stoney School Pole Mere Hanwood Hook-a-Gate Stretton Bayston Hill Atcham A488 Golf River Severn Course iver Sev Lea Mount Pleasant R ern Route 44 Betton Abbots Wroxeter Primary School Hinton Bomere Pool Arscott Bomere Cross Houses A458 Route 45 Rea Brook Annscroft A49 Wood Plealey Berrington Pool Lyth Hill Berrington Dismantled Country Park Greenfields Railway Pontesford Primary Longden Condover 500 School Cantlop 375 Route Profile Wilfred Flax Martin Owen Pontesbury Exfords Green Mill Wilson School n School Severndale ever Shrewsbury S Cathedral Catholic Specialist er School Earl’s Hill iv 250 Primary School R HEIGHT (feet) Condover 125 Park y ord F These maps are based on Ordnance Survey material Astley Longden Common Village with the permission of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Atcham 38 miles 19 miles Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Longden Shrewsbur Crown copyright andO mayxon lead to prosecution or civil alford Heath Upton Magna Upton Magna Sports W Half way point Bomere Heath r Se proceedings. Shropshire Council 100049049. 2015 Rive ver n Montford Bridge Shrewsbury C H E N T E T EW D E A E S A PARK RO R T G Walking & T E E NOR S TH S R R TREET N T O E S Key to symbols S F E H SE n N For a detailed map of cycle routes in Shrewsbury T U Cycling E E V E U E r O R R Q U N L N N E A Y N e Map T T S B E L UR T N TO E E A R N ST V v Your free guide to getting around R T S S L E E A ' B E e D A L E T B Y T S L R E Shrewsbury on foot or by bicycle R S M T N IN T C D S see our Shrewsbury walking and cycling map. I RW O R Gateway A S Y N A C T S D U E R EVERN BANK K A S Shropshire Cycleway Route N E Arts & E T r W T E E EE e TH T B T R v E A S Education T Castlefields i M T S R O T T A D E Footbridge U R S Centre I A R A R N E O O S M T Weir T E L C R T A I Oxon CE HA T V E FREN ST L Alternative route avoiding A458 B Primary R A Available from D CL E R GN D AD www.travelshropshire.co.uk A N R F School O O O L E R RD D N S N T E R Shropshire Council, U F or contact 01743 253008 or A The Guildhall Shrewsbury NCN Route 44 H Theatre Shrewsbury Castle & Severn Frankwell CLE OAD V RNE R Footbridge Shropshire Regimental Museum ELA THO ND P S [email protected].