Day 7. Crewgreen to Shrewsbury.

Sunday 28 August.
We left Brookhouse Farm by 9:30 am as we knew it was going to be a tough day. We went out N, over the farms campground, to join the iron bridge over the Severn. The first part of the walk, to Melverley, was across fields to view an old church. However the entrance was blocked a group of women and children putting up floral decorations so we missed out on a church visit.

The next mile or so was on the road until we reached a campsite which we entered on a footpath to meet up with the Severn Way again.
It was not clear on our map which footpath to take to pick up the Way. The way crossed corn fields to eventually pick up the road again. We then followed the road all around a military establishment down through the village of Shrawardine.The photos of the thatched cottage and the church were taken in the village. We then road and path to Montford where our final church photograph was taken.

It was then all road again to Montford Bridge, where we photographed   the Severn again before going into a pub, The Wingfield Arms, for a very welcome shandy.

The path continued opposite the pub but got lost in a lot of Japanese Knot weed. There appeared to be 2 routes both blocked with weed. We eventually picked up the correct path running up the side of a field of sweet corn. The path continued up a slight rise and offered great views  back as far as the Breidden Hills with Shiel in the foreground making her way towards the camera.

There followed a wooded area and a section of private road near Bicton,  but the way into Shrewsbury was largely through fields rather than tarmac road. It was interesting that  we could not find some of the Way signs in the area around Bicton but it was not that they had been removed. Rather shrubs and vegetation had been allowed to grow over the signs. Compare photos with Shiel, and then a close up of the hidden signs.

The path into Shrewsbury went for quite a way downhill through a wooded area behind housing (Shelton?) . It eventually came out on a water meadow which we followed until the path led up into the city where we went to locate our hotel, taking pictures on the way.

We arrived about 5pm after 7 and 1/2 hours. We covered 24.5km in mostly sunny weather with just a few short showers.

We are tired and the photos will probably not appear until we have a day off in Worcester.