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- Whitchurch Town Trail: Green End
- Whitchuch Town Trail: High Street
- Whitchurch Town Trail: Highgate, Mill Street and Scotland Street
- Whitchurch Town Trail: Pepper Street
- Whitchurch Town Trail: St. Alkmund's Church
- Whitchurch Town Trail: St. John's Street
- Whitchurch Town Trail: St. Mary's Street
- Whitchurch Town Trail: Station Road
- Whitchurch Town Trail: The Bull Ring
- Whitchurch Town Trail: Watergate Street
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Whitchurch Guide
This circular route is a guided tour around some of the interesting buildings of Whitchurch.
What Is The Guide For?
You may be visiting Whitchurch for the first time. Or you may live locally, and want to find out more about the town. This Guide focuses on the historic town centre, helping you to discover most of its important buildings and to learn something of their historical background. Serious investigators, such as students of architecture and local history, will find plentiful pointers to more substantial sources of information on a variety of subjects related to the town’s history.
What's In It?
The Guide takes you, street by street, through central Whitchurch. It’s based on all the streets that contain Listed Buildings, and covers many other notable buildings as well. En route, it highlights significant historical features associated with particular buildings or streets. Former inns, shopkeepers and other tradesmen are identified to give the flavour of a street’s life in earlier times. Famous names connected with the town are included.
As well as the commentaries there are recent photographs of all the buildings mentioned, with some much older images from the Shropshire Archives collection. More historical photographs will be added to the website later on.
Where Does The Route Go?
The main route runs north-westerly from the bottom of the town (Dodington) to the top (Bargates), and you could quite conveniently follow the route in the opposite direction.
The options are spurs off the main route leading you to further places of interest. When you follow an option, you’ll probably need to retrace your steps to continue the main route.
Distances in central Whitchurch are not great. The almost straight line from the bottom of Dodington via Watergate Street and High Street to the far end of Bargates is about three-quarters of a mile. Walking the route outlined here need not take more than two hours, including the optional diversions.
Start point: The fountain at the bottom end of
Dodington, just beyond the Dodington Lodge
Hotel.
Walk up Dodington towards Watergate Street.
OPTIONS: At Dodington/Watergate Street junction, take left up Bark Hill, then return to Watergate Street.
Continue along Watergate Street, then left up
Mill Street to Scotland Street and Highgate.
OPTIONS:Take Park Avenue into Jubilee Park for former canal towpath route, then back to Mill Street.
Back down Mill Street to the Bull Ring. Take
right fork along Green End and back again to
Bull Ring.
OPTIONS: At end of Green End, cross the bypass for Station Road, and return to Bull Ring.
Right up the High Street.
OPTIONS: Left into Pepper Street, returning to High Street.
At top of High Street, carry on down Bargates,
then back for St Alkmund’s Church. Left along Church Street and the first part of Claypit Street
OPTIONS: Cross Brownlow Street for continuation of Claypit Street, then return to Horse and Jockey
pub.
From Horse and Jockey left down St Mary’s Street
to the bottom of High Street.
Finish
OPTIONS: Left up St John’s Street to St John’s Church and back to the High Street to finish.
If you parked your car in the Dodington area, you can return to it from here via Watergate Street and Dodington.
For a slightly different route, and for some information additional to the website’s content, see Richard Hughes’s booklet Whitchurch: A Pavement Safari (1993). It’s available from the Heritage Centre at the bottom of St Mary’s Street.