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The part of the building that was the original Workhouse, now residential accommodation, is called Haycock House after the original architect. In 1916, during World War I , the building became Berrington War Hospital before becoming successively a general hospital, maternity hospital and geriatric hospital after that war.
Alveley is a village in the Severn Valley in southeast Shropshire, England, about 11 miles (18 km) south-southeast of Bridgnorth. It is in the civil parish of Alveley and Romsley. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 2,098. [1] It is served by bus service 297 (Kidderminster - Bridgnorth) operated by Select Bus Services. It is most ...
Most of the listed buildings are in the High Town area of Bridgnorth, with a smaller group in Low Town near the bridge. The majority of these are houses and shops, many of them timber framed and dating from the 15th to 17th century, the best of these being Bishop Percy's House. Only a small fragment of the castle and the town walls have ...
Albrighton is a large village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Wolverhampton and 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Bridgnorth. The village has a railway station on the Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton Line, [2] and is near to RAF Cosford and the M54 motorway. It is the most easterly settlement in Shropshire.
The ruins of Bridgnorth Castle. Bridgnorth is named after a bridge over the River Severn, which was built further north than an earlier bridge at Quatford. [4] The earliest historical reference to the town is in 895, when it is recorded that the Danes created a camp at Cwatbridge; [5] subsequently in 912, Æthelfleda constructed a mound on the west bank of the River Severn, or possibly on the ...
Astbury Hall is a stately home, with a 320-acre estate, [1] at Chelmarsh, near Bridgnorth, in Shropshire, England. The building was destroyed by fire in 1889, and rebuilt by Edmund Southwell (mayor of Bridgnorth, 1895-1897) in 1891. [2] John Arthur Buston, Master of the Wheatland hunt, lived at Astbury from c. 1911-c. 1937. [2]