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Ludstone is situated in southeast Shropshire about 8 kilometres east of Bridgnorth. Ludstone Hall is a large stone mansion built around 1607. The hall lies within a rectangular moat and was probably built on the site of a medieval manor house maintained by the Deans of Bridgnorth. In 1999 work...
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Bridgnorth is situated in southeast Shropshire, around 28 kilometres southeast of Shrewsbury. The town is at a bridging point of the River Severn, there has been a bridge here at least since A.D. 896 and this was one of only two bridges across the Severn between Shrewsbury and Worcester. Throug...
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Bridgnorth is situated in southeast Shropshire, nearly 30 kilometres southeast of Shrewsbury. The town has been an important bridging point of the River Severn since at least A.D. 896, and for centuries this was one of only two bridges across the Severn between Shrewsbury and Worcester. Proposa...
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The small town of Wem lies around 15 kilometres north of Shrewsbury in North Shropshire. It was a Domesday manor that developed into a medium sized market town in the middle ages. The town was a parliamentary stronghold during the English Civil War, and suffered a major fire in 1677. Although ...
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In 1998 a new water pipeline was to be built between Rodway pumping station and Edgmond pumping station across the Weald Moors to the north of Telford. This area contained important archaeological remains dating from the prehistoric to the industrial periods. Shropshire County Council Archaeolo...
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The Hoffman Kiln at Llanymynech consisted of fourteen open chambers arranged in an oval plan. The first chamber was filled with limestone containing narrow columns of coal. This was ignited and sealed with bricks which were covered in a clay paste. As the first chamber was ignited the second c...
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Arctic Terns do not breed in Shropshire but there are occasional records of them visiting Venus Pool Reserve, which is owned by the Shropshire Ornithological Society whose website can be accessed by following the link below.
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This meander in the River Severn, lies beneath the Breidden Hills and is actually in Wales. The straight bank in front of the river is a man made flood defence, called an argae. Argaes are designed to contain the flood water after the river bursts its banks. Two National Long Distance Foot paths...
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The straight bank is a man made flood defence, called an argae. It is holding back the flood water of the River Severn not far from Melverley. Photographed by John Tucker, Shropshire Wildlife Trust.
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It's not difficult to see how this water plant gained it's common name. The flowers are a little unusual in that they have 3 petals. This is characteristic of some of the Monocotyledons, the group of plants that includes lillies and grasses. The word Monocotyledon just means that in these plan...
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