The best running trails around Romsley

Nice place for a mid stop for tea and cake. Currently closed for a refit, (19 March 2024) hopefully open at Easter 2024.

Bewdley was once an important inland port, connecting Shrewsbury with the Midlands and the seaports of Gloucester and Bristol. Originally the quays were shorter and had slipways between them. In time, as more landing space was needed, the quayside walls were joined into one continuous length. The larger boats, known as Severn Trows, carried local goods such as rope and charcoal, metal goods from Birmingham and Staffordshire pottery to the south. They returned laden with woollen cloth, wine, spirits, tobacco, sugar, spices, citrus fruit and dried fish to be sold in market towns across the West Midlands and Welsh borders. This civic space was developed when the Environment Agency built the Town's new flood defences, and incorporates work by artist Elizabeth-Jane Grose. On the lower quayside you can find flowing words relating to the river and the vessels that worked on it. On the upper quayside have a look for the 'cargo-plates' recording forty of the common and less common exports and imports to the Port of Bewdley. Source: Environment Agency

Bewdley Bridge over the Severn was built in 1798 by Thomas Telford. It was erected to replace the 1483 medieval bridge that was swept away in the floods of 1795.

A range of four-foot high posts carved with natural history subjects. They include a wast, a woodpecker and an acorn.

Highley railway station is a station on the Severn Valley Railway heritage line in Shropshire, near the west bank of the River Severn and just under a mile south-east of the village of Highley. Highley is the only staffed single-platform station on the line. Other stops with one platform are unstaffed halts. The only station on the Severn Valley Railway with only one platform! Beautifully restored in traditional GWR style, the station is just a short walk from The Engine House! Highley station opened to the public on 1 February 1862 and closed on 9 September 1963, before the Beeching axe closures. Highley station was important as the transport hub of a colliery district, with four nearby coal mines linked to the Severn Valley line by standard and narrow gauge lines, cable inclines and aerial ropeways . There were extensive sidings along the line, and wagon repair works at Kinlet, half-a-mile south. The station was inconveniently far from Highley so the arrival of a bus service seriously affected use of the station. The signal box opposite the platform remained in use until 1969 when Alveley colliery closed and freight traffic ceased. The station site was disused until preservation.

Great place to stop and enjoy some food and drinks. Very friendly staff. Lots of information about the park.

Butter Cross 350m north west of Yewtree Cottage. Old Wayside Cross south of Hampton Loade, Alveley Parish The Butter Cross, old head, shaft & base by the UC road, in parish of Alveley (Bridgnorth District), Hampton Loade - lane North West of Alveley. Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1053230 Historically butter crosses were places where country people would come to sell their produce. Local legend says that this butter cross is where food was left for the village of Alveley when it was placed under quarantine during the Black Death in 1349.

Pretty, Georgian town with lots to see and do right on the River Severn