Property News · June 3, 2016

Let’s move to Shrewsbury, Shropshire: ‘These days, it’s a bit left behind’


I’d move there in a heartbeat if – sad face – it wasn’t so far from the sea What’s going for it? The football team might be Shrewsbury Town, but this place is all city to me. And what a city! Step out of the battlemented neo-gothic train station and you’re flung into a jumbled streetscape of jettied, black-and-white Tudor town houses tottering on to the pavement like a closing-time drunk, beside red-faced, fat-bellied brick Georgian town houses, spired churches, coaching inns and cobbled alleys. Shrewsbury was quite the place in the 18th century, when it boomed as a pitstop on the freeway to Dublin. These days it’s a bit left behind, now that canals, railways, motorways and Ryanair have replaced turnpikes, all alone on its hill, wrapped in a delicious curl of the river Severn. It seems a civilised, underrated place to live, with its riverside garden, flower festival, arts scene and elegant bridges, a cathedral city in all but cathedral. I’d move there in a heartbeat, if – sad face – it wasn’t so far from the sea.The case against It does feel as if something’s missing. A cathedral (though it has countless churches and a Catholic cathedral)? A university? Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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