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The Darwin Trail passes through Mountfields, following the River Severn along the track used by the barge pullers, from the theatre to Charles Darwin's childhood home at The Mount. It passes through fields that Darwin explored when escaping from Shrewsbury School , which he hated.
Shrewsbury (/ ˈ ʃ r oʊ z b ər i / ⓘ SHROHZ-bər-ee, also / ˈ ʃ r uː z-/ ⓘ SHROOZ-) [1] [2] is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England.It is sited on the River Severn, 33 miles (53 km) northwest of Wolverhampton, 15 miles (24 km) west of Telford, 31 miles (50 km) southeast of Wrexham and 53 miles (85 km) north of Hereford.
The arch was excavated during the construction of Theatre Severn in the late 2000s [4] [5] and is preserved within its foundations. Saint George is the patron saint of England . It is also given to the ( CofE ) church in Frankwell, which is within walking distance of the Welsh Bridge/site of St George's Bridge.
Frankwell was highly prosperous in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. 4-7 Frankwell is an imposing building with ground-floor shops and first- and second- floor workshops above, built in about 1590. 113-14 Frankwell, built around 1620, remains a splendid and imposing half-timbered building.
The English Bridge is a masonry arch viaduct, crossing the River Severn in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. The present bridge is a 1926 rebuilding and widening (re-using the original masonry) of John Gwynn's design, completed in 1774. A bridge is known to have stood at this spot since at least Norman times. Historically, it was known as the "Stone Bridge".
Eyton on Severn (pronounced: Eye-ton on Severn) is a small village in the English county of Shropshire, east of Shrewsbury. It is located on a ridge above the northern bank of the River Severn . The significant tributary of the Cound Brook joins the Severn at Eyton, albeit on the opposite bank.
Shelton water tower on the Severn Trent Water site. Shelton is a suburb located in the west of the town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England, described by the Pevsner Architectural Guides as "Shrewsbury's principal interwar suburb." [1] It was once a village of its own, but the town of Shrewsbury has grown steadily in the area since the 1950s.
A bill promoting the toll bridge was passed as the Shrewsbury (Kingsland) Bridge Act [2] in 1873. The bridge was promoted by Henry Robertson, who was also M.P. for Shrewsbury and designed by the civil engineer John William Grover. [3] It was constructed in 1883 by the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company, which also built the Victoria Falls ...