{"id":44510,"date":"2017-02-17T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-bishops-castle-shropshire-this-pretty-town-bursts-with-enthusiasm\/"},"modified":"2017-02-17T23:40:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T16:40:55","slug":"lets-move-to-bishops-castle-shropshire-this-pretty-town-bursts-with-enthusiasm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-bishops-castle-shropshire-this-pretty-town-bursts-with-enthusiasm\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Bishop\u2019s Castle, Shropshire: \u2018This pretty town bursts with enthusiasm\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt hums with independent shops, pubs, restaurants, museums, microbreweries, an eco-suburb and even a walking festivalWhat\u2019s going for it? As the isolated and only children know too well, when you have nobody else to talk to, you must make your own entertainment. Bishop\u2019s Castle, all alone out near the Welsh border, has had centuries to perfect the art of entertaining yourself. This pretty town bursts with enthusiasm. There may be barely 2,000 souls here, but goodness they\u2019re industrious. Bishop\u2019s Castle hums with independent shops, cafes, pubs, restaurants, B&Bs, two (two!) microbreweries, museums of rural life and railways, a weekly market, an eco-suburb, and I\u00a0haven\u2019t even got on to sports and recreation, let alone the walking festival. The town has long attracted alternative types, as my granny called them: artists, writers, the long-haired and crafty, the kind who can whittle the Cutty Sark from a\u00a0twig. There was a horrifying spate of yarn bombing last autumn. If anyone asked them, I\u2019m sure this lot could work out Brexit after a\u00a0community meeting or five; but, keeping itself to itself, Bishop\u2019s Castle instead makes a perfect spot to escape the world as it self-destructs, and indulge, perhaps, in a little macram\u00e9.The case against No castle (well, a wall). No bishop. Say goodbye to metropolitan pleasures. Far, far from anything but Church Stretton. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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