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Linked to this page you wil find a wide range of resources to support education and life long learning.
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Tudor and Stuart Shrewsbury
This is a reconstruction of the St. Chad's area c1630. To the left of the church can be seen St. Chad's College and within the churchyard are St. Chad's Almshouses.
Here you will find a detailed reconstruction of Shrewsbury as it was around 1630. The bird's eye view is linked to a wealth of resources associated with life in the Tudor and Stuart town.
It is suitable for students at key stages 2-3, but anyone interested in the history of Shrewsbury will find something to enjoy.
There are images of Tudor and Jacobean buildings many long since disappeared;
• There are biographies of Tudor people, merchants, lawyers, women and schoolboys based on actual documentary evidence or you can spend a day in the life of some of the characters.
• You can let your cursor do the walking through the old streets of the town and click on individual buildings to link with a huge number of captioned old images of the town.
• There is a downloadable Tudor Town Trail to take you around modern Shrewsbury and show you what is left of the Tudor town.
Medieval Much Wenlock
The aim of the reconstruction map of the town is to portray it as it was around 1475 when the town was still prosperous and the priory intact.
This reconstruction has been created by a local and is based on meticulous research by local historians, building experts and archaeologists. Much of the fabric of the medieval town still exists, often lurking behind more modern frontages, but there is of course much that must remain conjectural.
These interactive resources are intended for use mainly by Key stage 3 pupils (11-14 year olds) studying the impact of monasteries in medieval times, but can be enjoyed by anyone with a fascination for the past.
Eighteenth century Ludlow
This is an image of Ludlow in 1768 as it might have looked in 1768.
Ludlow in 1768 was a town in transition. Much of what can be seen in the map remains today, but aspects of an earlier Ludlow, that of the medieval, Tudor and Jacobean periods, much of which has vanished, can also be glimpsed.
These web pages are a “work in progress” and will continue to be added to.
Darwin Country website
The website is managed by Shrewsbury Museums Service and provides access to images and information about thousands of objects in the collections of Shrewsbury Museums Service, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and its other partners.
The site includes a wide range of material from pottery and china to photographs and oil paintings all of which reflect the rich history of Shropshire. It currently has over 13,000 images online.
Castles in Shropshire
Hopton Castle
Shropshire is an important county for castles because it is on the Welsh Border. The Normans were unable to conquer the fearsome Welsh and so to protect their conquered territory they created a ‘buffer zone’ populated with castles.
The Normans quickly built large numbers of castles in the county and Shropshire quickly became one of the most heavily fortified areas of England.