Walks and Strolls around Bridgnorth

Discover Shropshire

An Introduction to Bridgnorth

Bridgnorth is made up of two towns; the High Town and the Low Town. The Low Town was once a thriving port along the banks of the River Severn, whilst the High Town held the churches, castles and fine mansions.

To tap into the wealth of information about Bridgnorth visit Bridgnorth Visitor Information Centre, Library and Local History Centre:Listley Street, Bridgnorth WV16 4AWEmail: bridgnorth.tourism@shropshire.gov.ukTel: 01746 763257

Open all year Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 9.30am – 5pm. Also April – October, Thursday 10am – 1pm and 2pm – 5pm

If you would like to find information on other walks to enjoy around Bridgnorth or throughout the rest of Shropshire visit www.shropshirewalking.co.uk.Or if you would like to explore more about Bridgnorth and Shropshire’s landscape, people, nature and history visit www.discovershropshire.org.uk Shropshire Council Countryside Access Team, Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6NDTel: (0845) 678 9000 Website: www.shropshire.gov.uk

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Whether you are a visitor to Bridgnorth, new to the area or a local this booklet has something to offer you.

It contains a number of circular walks around Bridgnorth’s countryside, through its unique town, and along the banks of the River Severn.

If you are after a short route up to 4 miles long that’s not too difficult but can keep you fit and healthy why not follow one of the Walking for Life! routes. A whole day out might take your fancy; if so take a picnic and follow one of the longer options described inside.

All of the walks offer a great variety of scenery, from enjoying the wildlife on the river to experiencing the fabulous views of the surrounding rolling countryside.

Walking is fun, free and can be done anywhere!

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Countryside Code

Key for Maps

From a gentle stroll to a long-distance walk, the countryside provides every opportunity for enjoyment and relaxation.

● Be safe – plan ahead and follow any signs● Leave gates and property as you find them● Protect plants and animals, and take your litter home● Keep dogs under close control● Consider other people

If you follow the Countryside Code wherever you go, you’ll get the best enjoyment possible and you’ll help to protect the countryside now and for future generations.

Walking for Life! routeLong route optionParkingToiletsFootbridgeStileGateChurch

Grading – routes are graded by terrain and inclines, not by distance:

Easy terrain, occasional inclines

Moderate terrain, moderate inclines

Difficult terrain, very steep inclines

Key to symbols

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Walk 1: Oldbury to Eardington Pages 6-8

START / FINISH: Listley Street North Car Park, Bridgnorth WV16 4AW (Pay and Display)

Facilities nearby: WC, Library, shops

DISTANCE: Walking for Life! Route: 3 km/ 1.8 miles Long option: 6.2km/ 3.8 miles

Walk 2: Astley Abbotts Pages 9-12

START/ FINISH: Innage Lane Car Park, Bridgnorth, WV16 4EU (Pay and Display) Facilities nearby: WC, Leisure Centre, Golf Course, shops

DISTANCE: Walking for Life! Route: 6km/ 3.7miles Long option: 13.5km/ 8.4miles

Walk 3: Quatford Pages 13-15

START/FINISH: Severn Street Car Park, Bridgnorth WV15 6BB (Pay and Display) Facilities nearby: WC, shops

DISTANCE: Walking for Life! Route: 5km/ 3 miles Long option: 8km/ 5 miles

Walk 4: High Rock and Bromley Pages 16-19

START/FINISH: Severn Park Car Park WV15 5AG (Pay and Display) Facilities nearby: Play area, picnic tables

DISTANCE: High Rock Route: 4km/ 2.5miles (N.B. this is not a Walking for Life! route as it involves some steep climbs and more difficult terrain)

Long option: 7.5km/ 4.7miles

Contents

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Walk 1: Oldbury to Eardington

Walking for Life! Route Directions

1 Start at Listley Street Car Park, cross straight over the road onto Railway Street and continue to a T-junction.

2 At the T-junction cross straight over onto a hardcore track (signposted Severn Valley Railway SVR).

3 Just as you approach the station take a waymarked footpath uphill to your right (just through a gateway).

4 At the top of the footpath continue straight across the school playing fields towards a brick building; pass the brick building on your right and continue to a stile in the top right hand corner.

5 Go over the stile and follow the path onto a footbridge over the bypass.

6 Once over the footbridge turn right onto Cycle Route 45 Mercian Way and continue until you reach a small lane.

7 Continue straight up the lane, around a left hand bend to a T-junction.

8 Turn left at the T-junction and continue along the road to another T-junction.

9 Turn left at the T-junction, past a small church on your left.

10 Immediately after the church turn left following the footpath sign across the church car park to a stile in the top right hand corner. Once over the stile follow the left hand hedge to another stile at the bottom of the field.

11 Once over the stile turn left onto a footpath.

12 Take the first right over the bypass footbridge and follow the footpath left handed back onto the school fields.

13 Continue towards and past the brick building on your left and follow the line of the church in the distance to a footpath on the far side of the fields.

14 Continue down the footpath and turn left at the bottom onto a track.

15 When you reach the road cross straight over onto Railway Street.

16 At the top of Railway Street cross straight over the road back into the car park.

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PanpuddingHill

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Manor Farm

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Railway Street, Points 1-2

Oldbury Church at Point 10

Walk 1 Map

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Longer Route Directions

Follow Walking for Life! route up to point 7

A Continue up lane and then turn onto a footpath on your right just before a left hand bend in the lane. Once in the field keep to the right hand fence and continue until you reach a stile in the far corner to rejoin lane.

B Continue straight ahead onto the lane for a couple of minutes to a marked footpath on your left.

C On footpath head diagonally right across field to a gateway on the far side onto the road.

D Cross straight over the road onto a track and then immediately bear right to cross another field keeping the two oak trees on your right to a stile in the hedge.

E Once over the stile turn left, and follow the hedge line to a hard core track to Westwood Farm.

F Continue up the track and bear left before the large shed to walk along the track between a house and a cottage.

G When the track bears left back towards the road, turn right and over a stile, and bear left.

H Continue through a gate in front of the house, and bear right towards a wood. Once in the wood follow the waymarkers left handed out of the wood back towards the house and follow the left hand hedge down the field over two stiles in the bottom left hand corner.

I One over the stile head across the field to another stile onto the road. Cross straight over onto a footpath directly opposite you.

J Follow the footpath to a stile, once over the stile bear right towards another stile in the distance.

K Once over stile walk straight ahead up the field to the top hedge where you will see another stile hidden in the trees. Once over stile, head to the right of copse and pond over stile onto road.

L Very carefully turn left onto the road (cross over and walk on the right hand side). Continue along the road until you reach a small church on your left.

Follow the Walking for Life! directions from point number 10

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Walk 2: Astley Abbotts

Walking for Life!Route Directions

1 Start in Innage Lane Car Park next to fire station and cross road at the crossing to William Williams Builders Merchants and turn left towards Town Centre.

2 By the Bear Inn cross the road and go up Cliff Road around sharp left-hand bend into Love Lane.

3 Turn right to take footpath down to Bramble Ridge estate.

4 At the end of the footpath turn left into the housing estate.

5 Near end of estate turn right through kissing gate to cross playing fields to The River Severn/ The Severn Way.

6 Turn left and follow The Severn Way through to the end of the golf course over the stile.

7 Turn left over the stile and follow the footpath on to a track. Continue down the track, past Little Severn Hall.

8 Turn left and follow road past the golf club until a sharp right-hand bend, just after a small bridge.

9 Turn left onto Bramble Ridge and retrace route up footpath to Love Lane and then Cliff Road.

10 Cross the road and turn right to return to the car park.

Longer Route Directions

A Park in the Innage car park next to Fire Station. Turn right and walk up Innage Lane to T-junction

B Turn left up the Hookfield to the junction with Victoria Road.

C Turn right onto Victoria Road.

D At the shops turn left into the Hook Farm Road estate, walking towards Hook Farm. Bear right down track over stile. At second stile bear left across field to corner of woodland, (Trinity Wood) follow footpath over footbridge and stiles to the road.

E Turn right and walk up the road past the water tower and church to the track to Kingsley Farm on your right.

View from River Severn

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Course of old railway

F Turn right down the track and go through the gate on your right as indicated by bridleway signpost.

Go over footbridge, across the field towards the cottage and through a metal wicket gate, then follow the hardcore track from the cottage to the road.

G Cross the road and turn left and immediately right to Astley Abbots and Colemore Green.

Astley Abbots is a picturesque village with pleasant houses and a fine church.

H Walk through the village past the private driveway and Lodge to Stanley Hall and through the gate on the right into a field. Follow the path through a series of stiles and passed a series of fishing pools round Boldings Farm.

I Turn right and follow the road.

J Turn left after a couple of minutes through a metal gate into a wood. Continue to ‘old railway track’ where turn left until stile on right for access to Severn Way footpath.

Astley Abbots

Walk 2 Map

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About half a mile north of Bridgnorth, Fort Pendlestone can be seen on the opposite bank. The present building, was erected by William Whitmore, in 1854 from sandstone hewn from the cliffs behind. These culminate in a view point known as High Rock which is featured in Walk 2. The Fort occupies the site of a former cornmill built in 1225 but this was destroyed by fire.

K Turn right and follow riverside path over a series of fields and stiles all through the golf course to cross a metal and concrete footbridge

L Just after footbridge turn right across playing field to a kissing gate.

M Turn left, go through the estate, then up a track indicated by a signpost to the road.

N Turn left and follow Love Lane and Cliff Road to the junction by Northgate. Cross the road, then turn right and follow tarmac path back to the Innage car park.

Caves along River Severn from K

This is a beautiful stretch of the Severn with wooded sandstone cliffs bordering the eastern bank. Today’s peaceful and tranquil river scene is very different to that of earlier centuries when the Severn was a very important trading route. Barge traffic plied between Shropshire, Worcester, Gloucester and Bristol. The main trade was in goods, but during the 18th century, passenger vessels known as wherries provided a service between Shrewsbury, Worcester and Gloucester. Although the barges were equipped with sails, they were hauled up-stream by gangs of men, until the establishment of proper towpaths at the end of the 18th century allowed the use of horses.

The lack of weirs and locks to main navigable depths, meant that in periods of drought or low rainfall, the river traffic came to a standstill. The construction of the canal networks and the coming of the railways spelt the end of the river trade. The barges in use on the Severn were known as’ Trows’.

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Walking for Life! Route Directions

1 From the Severn Street Car Park turn right onto Severn Street to the footbridge to the Bylet Bowling Green.

2 Do not cross the bridge, instead turn left before the bridge and go through the metal cycle barriers onto the riverside path. Continue along the riverside path (River Severn on your right) under the bypass, through a kissing gate and over a series of four stiles.

3 Once over the fourth stile continue along the riverside path for approximately 25 meters and then turn left, walk straight across the field until you come in line with a field boundary on your left. Continue along field boundary until you reach the road (A442).

4 Carefully cross over the A442 and turn left. Continue along the pavement, past a farm track on your right.

5 Immediately after the farm track turn right up Old Worcester Road and continue until you approach a roundabout.

6 On approaching the roundabout turn right and cross over the Stourbridge Road (A458) and take the right hand road towards Bridgnorth.

7 Just before the junction with the A442 fork right onto a narrow road (Bernards Hill) and continue until you reach the end of the road.

8 Carefully cross straight over the road and return to the car park where you started.

Cave between points F & G

Walk 3: Quatford

Quatford Castle at point J-K

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Start

OldburyWells

High Town

LowTown

Oldbury

PanpuddingHill

SevernValley

Railway

Manor Farm

WestwoodCottages

Bromley

Fenn Gate

Rindleford

Cross LaneHead

Astley Abbots

Colemore Green

School School

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Longer Route Directions

Follow the Walking for Life route directions up to point 3

A Once over the 4th stile continue along the riverside path until you approach the end of the path.

B Bear left onto a footpath and follow this left hand path up to the road.

C Carefully cross over the road and turn right and follow the pavement as it bears away from the road to some houses and turn left onto a track (signposted by a fingerpost).

D After approximately 5 minutes turn left onto a narrow footpath to a stile into some woodland.

E Once over the stile take the right hand path up the slope and continue until you reach a forest opening.

F At the opening head diagonally left to follow a narrow path uphill, past a cave on your left and continue onto a road.

G Turn left onto the road and continue to T-Junction.

H Turn left at T-junction onto a road

I After approx 5 mins turn right over a stile, keep to the right hand track.

J When the track opens out, bear right to follow a path alongside an old wall, past Quatford Castle on your left, to a farm track.

K Turn left onto the track and follow it to the road.

L Turn right and immediately right again up Old Worcester Road and continue until you approach a roundabout.

Follow directions on the Walking for Life route from point 6

Start

OldburyWells

High Town

LowTown

Oldbury

PanpuddingHill

SevernValley

Railway

Manor Farm

WestwoodCottages

Bromley

Fenn Gate

Rindleford

Cross LaneHead

Astley Abbots

Colemore Green

School School

School

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Works

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Depot

Factory

Offices

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Walk 4: High Rock & Bromley

High Rock Route Directions

1 Exit the Severn Park onto the A442, carefully cross over the road and turn left.

2 Take first road on right and follow it up to the cemetery.

3 Just before the cemetery gates turn left up some steep steps and follow them to the top (cemetery is down to your right).

Cemetery gates at point 3

4 At top of steps bear right and follow the path along the wire fence into the wood. Continue along the main footpath all the way through the wood until you reach the edge of the ridge overlooking the golf course.

View from point 4

5 Turn right and continue along the narrow path overlooking the golf course and river below to your left.

6 When you reach the enclosed wood bear right and follow the track past a farm and cottages on your right until you reach the road at Fenn Gate.

Here you can either follow the directions below back to the start or add on an extra loop – see extra loop directions

7 Turn immediately right and go over a stile, head straight ahead across the farm drive and over another stile into a field.

8 Head straight across the field to a metal gate you can see in the distance.

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9 Once over the gate continue straight on towards the wood.

10 Keep to the left of the wood and continue until you see a stile on your right taking you back into the wood.

11 Go over the stile back into the wood and turn left; back onto the track you came into the wood on.

12 Retrace you steps back to the cemetery (when the track branches keep to the right hand path) and then back down the road to the Severn Park.

Extra Loop – Bromley

To add this extra loop to Bromley, follow the High Rock directions up to point 7 and then pick up the directions below

A When you reach the road turn left and follow the narrow road for approx 15 minutes towards Bromley. Continue into Bromley until you see a red telephone box on your right just after a left hand bend.

B Turn right onto the track by the telephone box and then immediately right over a stile into a field. Once over the stile continue ahead to the stile you can see in front of you.

Bromley telephone box at point B

C Once over the stile head diagonally left down the hill to another stile.

D Once over the stile turn right and follow the hedge line until you reach a stile in the hedge on your right.

E Climb over the stile and walk to the left of the water works and over two more stiles until you come out onto a hardcore track.

F Turn left onto the track and follow the path over a footbridge and past Rindleford Mill on your right.

Rindleford Mill at point F

G Turn right to go around the rear of Rindleford Mill (follow finger post), turn right immediately to follow another finger post and go over two more footbridges and a stile.

H Follow the path for 50 metres (River Worfe on left) then branch right onto another path. Continue on this path for approximately 20 minutes until you reach a metal gate.

I Go through the metal gate and turn immediately left onto a narrow path to a stile at the end.

J Once over the stile continue up the centre of the field until you reach a track on your right. Turn right onto the track to a metal gate.

K Go through the metal gate and head diagonally right towards a waymarker in the field boundary on your right.

L When you reach the field boundary turn left and follow the

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River Worfe, points G-H

boundary on your right all the way to a gate which takes you onto a road at Fenn Gate.

M Turn right onto the road and then immediately left over a stile into a field head, straight ahead across the farm drive and over another stile and continue with the High Rock directions from number 8.

It’s never too lateThere is no such thing as “too old to exercise”. Whatever your age or current level of fitness you can benefit from doing a bit more physical activity. Try to get out and walk as much as possible within your own limitations.

Build it into your daily routineAny activity is better than none; but to get the most benefit you need to do at least 30 minutes moderate physical activity on at least 5 days of the week.

Moderate activity is anything which involves:• Breathing a little faster• Having a slightly faster heart beat• Feeling warmer

You should aim to reach a single session of 30 minutes but you can break this down into• 3 x 10 minutes• 2 x 15 minutes

Start at your own levelStart at a level that suits you; there is no point wearing yourself out on your first walk. Start gradually, set yourself small targets and goals, and build slowly from there; small changes can make a big difference, the most important thing is to make a start.

Listen to your bodyIf you feel any dizziness or pain whilst walking, slow down or stop completely and take a rest. If the problem continues, consult your doctor before walking again.

Keep active and keep the benefitsAny health benefits you have gained will be lost if you don’t continue to be active.

Contact DetailsIf you enjoy the walking routes in this leaflet and would like to walk with other people then why not join one of the Walking for Health groups in your area. You can attend either as a visitor or a regular and it is free of charge. For further information please contact:

Shropshire Council,Countryside Access Team,Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6NDTel: (0845) 678 9000www.shropshire.gov.ukFind out more about Walking for Health at www.whi.org.uk

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