Areas we cover
One provider for the whole county. We work from the Cheshire border down to the Herefordshire border and across to Wales, covering every market town below and the villages, farms and lanes between them.
Shrewsbury
SY1, SY2, SY3, SY4, SY5
Shrewsbury is the county town, held in its famous loop of the River Severn, and the centre of a wide rural hinterland. The town itself is on mains drainage, but step a mile or two beyond the bypass in any direction and you are quickly into farmland, smallholdings and village edges where septic tanks and treatment plants are the norm..
Services in Shrewsbury →Telford
TF1, TF2, TF3, TF4, TF5, TF6, TF7
Telford is the county’s largest urban area, and most of the new town itself is on mains drainage. But Telford’s borough boundary takes in a surprising amount of countryside, from the low-lying Weald Moors in the north to the wooded slopes of the Ironbridge Gorge in the south, and the villages within it rely heavily on septic tanks and treatment plants..
Services in Telford →Oswestry
SY10, SY11
Oswestry sits hard against the Welsh border in the north-west of the county, an old market town in the shadow of the Old Oswestry hillfort. The town looks two ways: east across the flat north Shropshire plain, and west into the Oswestry uplands, where the lanes climb quickly into border hill country..
Services in Oswestry →Bridgnorth
WV15, WV16
Bridgnorth stacks itself dramatically above the Severn, High Town on the sandstone cliff and Low Town on the river below, joined by the cliff railway. Around it spreads some of the most attractive countryside in east Shropshire: the Severn Valley south towards Highley, and rolling farmland out to Worfield, Claverley and the Clee foothills..
Services in Bridgnorth →Market Drayton
TF9
Market Drayton, home of gingerbread and a proper Wednesday market, anchors the dairy country of north-east Shropshire. The River Tern winds through the town, and around it lies a broad spread of farming villages: Hodnet, Cheswardine, Hinstock, Norton in Hales and more, running up to the Staffordshire and Cheshire borders..
Services in Market Drayton →Ludlow
SY8
Ludlow needs little introduction: the castle, the food reputation, and one of the finest townscapes in England, set where the Teme and the Corve meet under the Clee Hills. Beyond the town, SY8 covers a deeply rural stretch of south Shropshire, from the Corvedale up onto Clee Hill and south to the Herefordshire border..
Services in Ludlow →Whitchurch
SY13
Whitchurch is Shropshire’s northernmost town, an old market town on the Cheshire border surrounded by dairy pasture, meres and mosses. The countryside around it, from Prees and Tilstock across to Whixall with its famous raised peat moss, is flat, wet and thoroughly rural..
Services in Whitchurch →Wem
SY4
Wem is a small, self-contained market town in the middle of the north Shropshire plain, once famous for its sweet peas and its brewery. Around it lies quiet dairy and arable country: Clive with its landmark church spire, Loppington, Edstaston and a scatter of hamlets in between..
Services in Wem →Church Stretton
SY6
Church Stretton sits in the narrow valley between the Long Mynd and the Stretton Hills, walking country good enough to have earned the town its Victorian nickname of Little Switzerland. Along the valley run All Stretton and Little Stretton, and over the hills lie Cardington, Hope Bowdler and a string of upland farms..
Services in Church Stretton →Shifnal
TF11
Shifnal is a compact market town in east Shropshire, well connected by the M54 and the railway, with Telford on one side and open countryside towards the Staffordshire border on the other. Around it lie estate villages and hamlets: Tong with its remarkable church, Sheriffhales, Kemberton, Ryton and more..
Services in Shifnal →Newport
TF10
Newport is a handsome market town on the county’s north-eastern edge, beside the Staffordshire border and the drained levels of the Weald Moors. Harper Adams University at Edgmond underlines what this district is: serious farming country, with villages like Lilleshall, Tibberton and Chetwynd Aston set among big productive fields..
Services in Newport →Ellesmere
SY12
Ellesmere is the heart of Shropshire’s lake district, sitting beside The Mere, the largest of a cluster of glacial meres, with the Llangollen Canal threading through the town. The surrounding countryside of SY12 is gentle dairy country scattered with villages: Cockshutt, Welshampton, Dudleston Heath and the border hamlets towards Wales..
Services in Ellesmere →Craven Arms
SY7
Craven Arms grew up where the railway met the old drove roads, and it remains the practical hub of a huge sweep of sparsely settled south-west Shropshire: the Onny valley, the Clun Valley beyond, and the hills that inspired Housman. Stokesay Castle, England’s finest fortified manor house, stands just south of the town..
Services in Craven Arms →Much Wenlock
TF13
Much Wenlock is a small stone town with an outsized history: the ruined priory, and William Penny Brookes’ Wenlock Olympian Games, an inspiration for the modern Olympics. It sits at the foot of Wenlock Edge, the wooded limestone escarpment that runs fifteen miles across the county..
Services in Much Wenlock →Broseley
TF12
Broseley stands on the southern rim of the Ironbridge Gorge, a town built on clay: its tobacco pipes were once famous across the world, and its bricks and roof tiles built half the Black Country. Steep wooded slopes drop from the town to the Severn, with Jackfield and Benthall between, and farmland rolls south towards Willey and Linley..
Services in Broseley →Shropshire
Shropshire is one of England’s most rural counties: a big, quiet landscape of market towns, villages and scattered farms, split by the Severn into the dairy plain of the north and the hill country of the south. It is also, by the same token, one of the counties most dependent on off-mains drainage.
Read more →The Welsh Marches
The Welsh Marches is the old name for the border country where England meets Wales, and western Shropshire is its heart. From Oswestry down through the Vyrnwy and Severn valleys to Bishop’s Castle, the Clun Valley and the hills beyond Craven Arms, this is a landscape of hill farms, castles and small stone settlements strung along the border..
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