English Heritage sites near Chirbury with Brompton Parish
MITCHELL'S FOLD STONE CIRCLE
3 miles from Chirbury with Brompton Parish
A Bronze Age stone circle, the focus of many legends, set in dramatic moorland on Stapeley Hill. It once consisted of some 30 stones, 15 of which are still visible.
CLUN CASTLE
11 miles from Chirbury with Brompton Parish
11th century Welsh Border castle with dramatic riverside location and extensive earthworks built to proclaim Norman dominance. Tall 13th century keep is unusually set on the side of its mound.
STOKESAY CASTLE
15 miles from Chirbury with Brompton Parish
Stokesay Castle is quite simply the finest and best preserved fortified medieval manor house in England.
CANTLOP BRIDGE
17 miles from Chirbury with Brompton Parish
Built in 1813, this innovative, single-span, cast-iron road bridge over the Cound Brook was possibly designed and certainly approved by the great engineer Thomas Telford.
ACTON BURNELL CASTLE
17 miles from Chirbury with Brompton Parish
Twice the home of parliaments, this red sandstone shell of a semi-fortified tower house was built between 1284-93 by Bishop Burnell, Edward I's Lord Chancellor.
LANGLEY CHAPEL
17 miles from Chirbury with Brompton Parish
A small chapel tranquilly set all alone in charming countryside. Its atmospheric interior contains a perfect set of 17th-century timber furnishings, including a musicians' pew.
Churches in Chirbury with Brompton Parish
Corndon Marsh Chapel
Middleton
Shrewsbury
01938 552064
The Marsh Chapel is a typical "tin tabernacle", just like many that were erected in Victorian times to cater for the needs of industrial communities. In those days the growing lead mining industry brought large numbers of people to this part of the Shropshire/Montgomery border. Now the chapel serves the small communities around White Grit and Corndon Marsh, within the parish of Middleton-in-Chirbury.
Marton-in-Chirbury: St Mark
B4386
Marton-in-Chirbury
01938 552064
St Mark's is one of the two places of worship serving the little village of Marton (the other being the Congregational chapel nearby). It is one of the six churches in the Chirbury Hills Group, serving rural and agricultural communities straddling the Shropshire / Montgomeryshire border. Thomas Bray, founder of SPCK and (U)SPG, was born in the parish (though before the building of the present church or the establishment of a separate parish of Marton). He is commemorated by a plaque in the church erected in the 300th anniversary year of USPG.
Middleton-in-Chirbury: Holy Trinity
Middleton-in-Chirbury
Montgomery
(01938) 552064
Middleton-in-Chirbury is one of the five parishes in our Group, which is very rural and straddles the Shropshire / Montgomeryshire border.
Holy Trinity is the parish church, and is in England - it's a lovely peaceful village church situated on the Rorrington to Priestweston road. It is open all the time, and has a ramp (stored inside the porch) for ease of access. There is also a chapel of ease at Corndon Marsh, which is (just!) in Wales. Middleton is a simple Victorian stone church, but inside there is a treasure trove of carving - of the stone columns, the pew ends and almost anything that could be worked on - the work of a previous Vicar, Revd Waldegrave Brewster. Some of the carvings are Christian symbols, but others illustrate local legends like the story of Mitchell's Fold, a nearby stone circle, and the signs of the Zodiac. Some of the faces on pew ends may well have been modelled on local folk!
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St Michael & All Angels, Chirbury
St Michael's, Chirbury is one of six churches in the Chirbury Hills Group, serving small rural and agricultural communities on the Shropshire / Montgomeryshire border. It is a large and ancient building, which prior to the Reformation was an Augustinian priory. Thomas Bray, founder of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG, now USPG) was born in the historic parish of Chirbury (at Bray's Tenement on the Long Mountain above Marton), and was baptized in this church.
Pubs in Chirbury with Brompton Parish
Blue Bell
Edge of the village traditional pub just a few hundred yards from the Welsh border, which has been in the same family ownership since 1926. The public bar was refitted in 1949 and nothing has changed since. The door to the public bar is the...
Herbert Arms
Named after the Barons Herbert of Chirbury, and situated within the conservation area at the centre of the village, this is a rather imposing Georgian pub. When it was first built it was called the Cross. Nowadays it is a very welcoming vil...
Lowfield Inn
The present pub is on the site of the old Lowfield Inn which was demolished in 2007. The current sympathetic reincarnation was opened in 2008. It is large inside with four areas furnished in a rustic style. There's a lounge with some sofas...
Miners Arms
An authentic and definitely rural local tucked away in the depths of Shropshire Hills country. There are three distinct drinking areas all of which have low beams, exposed stone walls, a seemingly generous provision of wood burning stoves...
Sun Inn
Whilst the emphasis in the Sun is on quality dining, it does offer a convivial and comfortable drinking experience for those villagers who use it as their local. The bar area is tastefully done out with period furniture and paintings on th...