Walks and Strolls

around Bridgnorth
Discover Shropshire

An Introduction to Bridgnorth
Bridgnorth is made up of two towns; the High Town and the Low Town. The
Low Town was once a thriving port along the banks of the River Severn,
whilst the High Town held the churches, castles and fine mansions.
To tap into the wealth of information about Bridgnorth visit

Bridgnorth Visitor Information Centre, Library and

Local History Centre:
Listley Street, Bridgnorth WV16 4AW
Email: bridgnorth.tourism@shropshire.gov.uk
Tel: 01746 763257

Open all year Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday

9.30am 5pm. Also April October, Thursday 10am 1pm and 2pm 5pm

If you would like to find information on other walks to enjoy around

Bridgnorth or throughout the rest of Shropshire visit
www.shropshirewalking.co.uk.
Or if you would like to explore more about Bridgnorth and Shropshires
landscape, people, nature and history visit
www.discovershropshire.org.uk

Shropshire Council

Countryside Access Team, Shirehall, Abbey Foregate,

Shrewsbury, SY2 6ND
Tel: (0845) 678 9000
Website: www.shropshire.gov.uk

Whether you are a visitor to Bridgnorth, new to the area or a local this
booklet has something to offer you.
It contains a number of circular walks around Bridgnorths countryside,
through its unique town, and along the banks of the River Severn.
If you are after a short route up to 4 miles long thats not too difficult but
can keep you fit and healthy why not follow one of the Walking for Life!
routes. A whole day out might take your fancy; if so take a picnic and
follow one of the longer options described inside.
All of the walks offer a great variety of scenery, from enjoying
the wildlife on the river to experiencing the fabulous views of the
surrounding rolling countryside.

Walking is fun, free

and can be done anywhere!

Countryside Code
From a gentle stroll to a long-distance walk,
the countryside provides every opportunity for
enjoyment and relaxation.

Be safe plan ahead and follow any signs

Leave gates and property as you find them
Protect plants and animals, and take your litter home
Keep dogs under close control
Consider other people

If you follow the Countryside Code wherever you go, youll get the best
enjoyment possible and youll help to protect the countryside now and for
future generations.

Key for Maps

Grading routes are graded by terrain and
inclines, not by distance:
Easy terrain, occasional inclines
Moderate terrain, moderate inclines
Difficult terrain, very steep inclines
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Key to symbols
Walking for Life! route
Long route option
Parking
Toilets
Footbridge
Stile
Gate
Church

Contents
Walk 1: Oldbury to Eardington

Pages 6-8

START / FINISH: Listley Street North Car Park, Bridgnorth WV16 4AW
(Pay and Display)

Facilities nearby: WC, Library, shops
DISTANCE:

Walking for Life! Route: 3 km/ 1.8 miles

Long option: 6.2km/ 3.8 miles

Walk 2: Astley Abbotts

Pages 9-12

START/ FINISH: Innage Lane Car Park, Bridgnorth, WV16 4EU

(Pay and Display)

Facilities nearby: WC, Leisure Centre, Golf Course, shops
DISTANCE:

Walking for Life! Route: 6km/ 3.7miles

Long option: 13.5km/ 8.4miles

Walk 3: Quatford

Pages 13-15

START/FINISH: Severn Street Car Park, Bridgnorth WV15 6BB

(Pay and Display)

Facilities nearby: WC, shops
DISTANCE:

Walking for Life! Route: 5km/ 3 miles

Long option: 8km/ 5 miles

Walk 4: High Rock and Bromley

Pages 16-19

START/FINISH: Severn Park Car Park WV15 5AG (Pay and Display)

Facilities nearby: Play area, picnic tables
DISTANCE:

 igh Rock Route: 4km/ 2.5miles (N.B. this is not a

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Walking for Life! route as it involves some steep climbs and
more difficult terrain)
Long option: 7.5km/ 4.7miles
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Walk 1: Oldbury to Eardington

Walking for Life!
Route Directions

8 Turn left at the T-junction and

1 Start at Listley Street Car Park,

9 Turn left at the T-junction, past a

cross straight over the road onto

Railway Street and continue to a
T-junction.

2 At the T-junction cross straight over

onto a hardcore track (signposted
Severn Valley Railway SVR).

3 Just as you approach the station

take a waymarked footpath

uphill to your right (just through a
gateway).

4 At the top of the footpath continue

straight across the school playing
fields towards a brick building;
pass the brick building on your
right and continue to a stile in the
top right hand corner.

5 Go over the stile and follow the

path onto a footbridge over the
bypass.

6 Once over the footbridge turn

right onto Cycle Route 45

Mercian Way and continue until
you reach a small lane.

7 Continue straight up the lane,

around a left hand bend to a
T-junction.

continue along the road to

another T-junction.
small church on your left.

10 Immediately after the church turn

left following the footpath sign

across the church car park to a
stile in the top right hand corner.
Once over the stile follow the left
hand hedge to another stile at the
bottom of the field.

11 Once over the stile turn left onto a

footpath.

12 Take the first right over the

bypass footbridge and follow the

footpath left handed back onto
the school fields.

13 Continue towards and past the

brick building on your left and

follow the line of the church in the
distance to a footpath on the far
side of the fields.

14 Continue down the footpath and

turn left at the bottom onto a
track.

15 When you reach the road cross

straight over onto Railway Street.

16 At the top of Railway Street cross

straight over the road back into
the car park.

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Follow Walking for Life! route up
to point 7
A Continue up lane and then turn

onto a footpath on your right just

before a left hand bend in the
lane. Once in the field keep to
the right hand fence and continue
until you reach a stile in the far
corner to rejoin lane.

B Continue straight ahead onto the

lane for a couple of minutes to a
marked footpath on your left.

C On footpath head diagonally

right across field to a gateway on

the far side onto the road.

D Cross straight over the road onto

a track and then immediately
bear right to cross another field
keeping the two oak trees on
your right to a stile in the hedge.

E Once over the stile turn left, and

follow the hedge line to a hard
core track to Westwood Farm.

F Continue up the track and bear

left before the large shed to walk

along the track between a house
and a cottage.

G When the track bears left back

towards the road, turn right and

over a stile, and bear left.

H Continue through a gate in front

of the house, and bear right

towards a wood. Once in the
wood follow the waymarkers left
handed out of the wood back
towards the house and follow the
left hand hedge down the field
over two stiles in the bottom left
hand corner.

I One over the stile head across

the field to another stile onto the

road. Cross straight over onto a
footpath directly opposite you.

J Follow the footpath to a stile,

once over the stile bear right
towards another stile in the
distance.

K Once over stile walk straight

ahead up the field to the top

hedge where you will see
another stile hidden in the trees.
Once over stile, head to the right
of copse and pond over stile onto
road.

L Very carefully turn left onto the

road (cross over and walk on the

right hand side). Continue along
the road until you reach a small
church on your left.

Follow the Walking for Life!

directions from point number 10

Walk 2: Astley Abbotts

7 Turn left over the stile and follow
the footpath on to a track.
Continue down the track, past
Little Severn Hall.

8 Turn left and follow road past the

golf club until a sharp right-hand
bend, just after a small bridge.

9 Turn left onto Bramble Ridge and

View from River Severn

Walking for Life!

Route Directions
1 Start in Innage Lane Car Park

next to fire station and cross

road at the crossing to William
Williams Builders Merchants and
turn left towards Town Centre.

2 By the Bear Inn cross the road and

go up Cliff Road around sharp
left-hand bend into Love Lane.

3 Turn right to take footpath down

to Bramble Ridge estate.

4 At the end of the footpath turn left

into the housing estate.

5 Near end of estate turn right

through kissing gate to cross
playing fields to The River
Severn/ The Severn Way.

6 Turn left and follow The Severn

Way through to the end of the
golf course over the stile.

retrace route up footpath to Love

Lane and then Cliff Road.

10 Cross the road and turn right to

return to the car park.

Longer Route Directions

A Park in the Innage car park next

to Fire Station. Turn right and

walk up Innage Lane to T-junction

B Turn left up the Hookfield to the

junction with Victoria Road.

C Turn right onto Victoria Road.

D At the shops turn left into the

Hook Farm Road estate, walking

towards Hook Farm. Bear right
down track over stile. At second
stile bear left across field to
corner of woodland, (Trinity
Wood) follow footpath over
footbridge and stiles to the road.

E Turn right and walk up the road

past the water tower and church

to the track to Kingsley Farm on
your right.
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Walk 2 Map
Astley Abbots
Colemore Green

F Turn right down the track and go

through the gate on your right as

indicated by bridleway signpost.

Go over footbridge, across the

field towards the cottage and

through a metal wicket gate, then
follow the hardcore track from the
cottage to the road.

G Cross the road and turn left and

immediately right to Astley Abbots

and Colemore Green.

Astley Abbots is a picturesque village

with pleasant houses and a fine church.
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H Walk through the village past the

private driveway and Lodge

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on the right into a field. Follow
the path through a series of stiles
and passed a series of fishing
pools round Boldings Farm.

I Turn right and follow the road.

J Turn left after a couple of minutes
through a metal gate into a
wood. Continue to old railway
track where turn left until stile on
right for access to Severn Way
footpath.

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About half a mile north of Bridgnorth,

Fort Pendlestone can be seen on the
opposite bank. The present building,
was erected by William Whitmore, in
1854 from sandstone hewn from the
cliffs behind. These culminate in a view
point known as High Rock which is
featured in Walk 2. The Fort occupies
the site of a former cornmill built in
1225 but this was destroyed by fire.
This is a beautiful stretch of the Severn
with wooded sandstone cliffs bordering
the eastern bank. Todays peaceful and
tranquil river scene is very different
to that of earlier centuries when the
Severn was a very important trading
route. Barge traffic plied between
Shropshire, Worcester, Gloucester and
Bristol. The main trade was in goods,
but during the 18th century, passenger
vessels known as wherries provided
a service between Shrewsbury,
Worcester and Gloucester. Although
the barges were equipped with sails,
they were hauled up-stream by gangs
of men, until the establishment of
proper towpaths at the end of the 18th
century allowed the use of horses.
The lack of weirs and locks to main
navigable depths, meant that in
periods of drought or low rainfall, the
river traffic came to a standstill. The
construction of the canal networks
and the coming of the railways spelt
the end of the river trade. The barges
in use on the Severn were known as
Trows.

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K Turn right and follow riverside

path over a series of fields and

stiles all through the golf course
to cross a metal and concrete
footbridge

L Just after footbridge turn right

across playing field to a kissing

gate.

M Turn left, go through the estate,

then up a track indicated by a
signpost to the road.

N Turn left and follow Love Lane

and Cliff Road to the junction by

Northgate. Cross the road, then
turn right and follow tarmac path
back to the Innage car park.
Caves along River Severn from K

Walk 3: Quatford
4 Carefully cross over the A442

and turn left. Continue along the

pavement, past a farm track on
your right.

5 Immediately after the farm track

turn right up Old Worcester Road

and continue until you approach
a roundabout.

6 On approaching the roundabout

Quatford Castle at point J-K

Walking for Life!

Route Directions
1 From the Severn Street Car Park

turn right onto Severn Street to the

footbridge to the Bylet Bowling
Green.

2 Do not cross the bridge, instead

turn left before the bridge and go

through the metal cycle barriers
onto the riverside path. Continue
along the riverside path (River
Severn on your right) under the
bypass, through a kissing gate
and over a series of four stiles.

turn right and cross over the

Stourbridge Road (A458) and
take the right hand road towards
Bridgnorth.

7 Just before the junction with the

A442 fork right onto a narrow

road (Bernards Hill) and continue
until you reach the end of the
road.

8 Carefully cross straight over the

road and return to the car park
where you started.

Cave between points F & G

3 Once over the fourth stile

continue along the riverside path

for approximately 25 meters and
then turn left, walk straight across
the field until you come in line
with a field boundary on your left.
Continue along field boundary
until you reach the road (A442).

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D After approximately 5 minutes turn

Longer Route Directions

left onto a narrow footpath to a

stile into some woodland.

Follow the Walking for Life route

directions up to point 3

E Once over the stile take the right

A Once over the 4th stile continue

along the riverside path until you

approach the end of the path.

hand path up the slope and

continue until you reach a forest
opening.

F At the opening head diagonally

B Bear left onto a footpath and

follow this left hand path up to the

road.

C Carefully cross over the road

and turn right and follow the

pavement as it bears away from
the road to some houses and turn
left onto a track (signposted by a
fingerpost).

left to follow a narrow path uphill,

past a cave on your left and
continue onto a road.

G Turn left onto the road and

continue to T-Junction.

H Turn left at T-junction onto a road

I After approx 5 mins turn right
over a stile, keep to the right
hand track.

J When the track opens out, bear

right to follow a path alongside

an old wall, past Quatford Castle
on your left, to a farm track.

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again up Old Worcester Road

and continue until you approach
a roundabout.

Follow directions on the Walking

for Life route from point 6

Quatford

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Walk 4: High Rock & Bromley

High Rock
Route Directions
1 Exit the Severn Park onto the

A442, carefully cross over the

road and turn left.

2 Take first road on right and follow

it up to the cemetery.

3 Just before the cemetery gates

turn left up some steep steps and

follow them to the top (cemetery
is down to your right).

View from point 4

5 Turn right and continue along the

narrow path overlooking the golf
course and river below to your
left.

6 When you reach the enclosed

wood bear right and follow the

track past a farm and cottages on
your right until you reach the road
at Fenn Gate.

Cemetery gates at point 3

4 At top of steps bear right and

follow the path along the wire

fence into the wood. Continue
along the main footpath all the
way through the wood until you
reach the edge of the ridge
overlooking the golf course.

Here you can either follow the

directions below back to the start
or add on an extra loop see
extra loop directions
7 Turn immediately right and go

over a stile, head straight ahead

across the farm drive and over
another stile into a field.

8 Head straight across the field to

a metal gate you can see in the
distance.

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9 Once over the gate

continue straight on
towards the wood.

10 Keep to the left of the

wood and continue

until you see a stile on
your right taking you
back into the wood.

11 Go over the stile back

into the wood and turn

left; back onto the track you came
into the wood on.

12 Retrace you steps back to

the cemetery (when the track

branches keep to the right hand
path) and then back down the
road to the Severn Park.

Extra Loop Bromley

To add this extra loop to Bromley,
follow the High Rock directions up
to point 7 and then pick up the
directions below
A When you reach the road turn

left and follow the narrow road

for approx 15 minutes towards
Bromley. Continue into Bromley
until you see a red telephone box
on your right just after a left hand
bend.

B Turn right onto the track by

the telephone box and then

immediately right over a stile
into a field. Once over the stile
continue ahead to the stile you
can see in front of you.

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Bromley telephone box at point B

C Once over the stile head

diagonally left down the hill to

another stile.

D Once over the stile turn right and

follow the hedge line until you

reach a stile in the hedge on your
right.

E Climb over the stile and walk to

the left of the water works and

over two more stiles until you
come out onto a hardcore track.

F Turn left onto the track and follow

the path over a footbridge and

past Rindleford Mill on your right.
Rindleford Mill at point F

G Turn right to go

around the rear of

Rindleford Mill (follow
finger post), turn right
immediately to follow
another finger post
and go over two more
footbridges and a
stile.

H Follow the path for 50

metres (River Worfe

on left) then branch
right onto another
path. Continue on this
path for approximately
20 minutes until you
reach a metal gate.

I Go through the

metal gate and turn

immediately left onto
a narrow path to a
stile at the end.

J Once over the stile

continue up the centre

of the field until you reach a track
on your right. Turn right onto the
track to a metal gate.

K Go through the metal gate and

head diagonally right towards a

waymarker in the field boundary
on your right.

L When you reach the field

boundary turn left and follow the

River Worfe, points G-H

boundary on your right all the

way to a gate which takes you
onto a road at Fenn Gate.

M Turn right onto the road and then

immediately left over a stile into a

field head, straight ahead across
the farm drive and over another
stile and continue with the High
Rock directions from number 8.

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Its never too late

There is no such thing as too old to exercise. Whatever
your age or current level of fitness you can benefit from
doing a bit more physical activity. Try to get out and walk
as much as possible within your own limitations.

Build it into your daily routine

Listen to your body

Moderate activity is anything which

involves:
Breathing a little faster
Having a slightly faster heart beat
Feeling warmer

Keep active and keep the benefits

Any activity is better than none; but to

get the most benefit you need to do
at least 30 minutes moderate physical
activity on at least 5 days of the
week.

You should aim to reach a single

session of 30 minutes but you can
break this down into
3 x 10 minutes
2 x 15 minutes

Start at your own level

Start at a level that suits you; there

is no point wearing yourself out on
your first walk. Start gradually, set
yourself small targets and goals, and
build slowly from there; small changes
can make a big difference, the most
important thing is to make a start.
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If you feel any dizziness or pain

whilst walking, slow down or stop
completely and take a rest. If the
problem continues, consult your doctor
before walking again.

Any health benefits you have gained

will be lost if you dont continue to be
active.

Contact Details

If you enjoy the walking routes

in this leaflet and would like to
walk with other people then why
not join one of the Walking for
Health groups in your area. You
can attend either as a visitor or a
regular and it is free of charge.
For further information please
contact:

Shropshire Council,
Countryside Access Team,
Shirehall, Abbey Foregate,
Shrewsbury, SY2 6ND
Tel: (0845) 678 9000
www.shropshire.gov.uk
Find out more about Walking for
Health at www.whi.org.uk