Bewdley
Bewdley is a tiny riverside town as well as civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire on the Shropshire border in England, along the Severn Valley 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Kidderminster and 22 miles (35 kilometres) southwest of Birmingham. [1] It rests on the River Severn, at the portal of the Wyre Forest national nature reserve, and at the time of the 2011 census had a population of 9,470. Bewdley is a popular tourist location as well as is known for the Bewdley Bridge developed by Thomas Telford. The almost all of Bewdley community is located on the western bank of the River Severn, including the primary street-- Load Street-- whose name originates from lode, an old word for ferry. Load Street is significant for its width: this is because it once also acted as the community's market place. Most of Bewdley's shops and amenities are positioned along Load Street, on top of which lies St Anne's Church, built in between 1745 and 1748 by Doctor Thomas Woodward of Chipping Campden. Past the church, High Street leads off to the south in the direction of Stourport along the B4194, a road understood in your area as "the switchback" as a result of its lots of wavinesses. Unlike in lots of English towns, High Street is so called not due to its relevance, however due to its geographical setting 'high' over the river. On the other side of the church, Welch Gate (so called because it once included a tollgate when traveling towards Wales) climbs up considerably as much as the west, while Dowles Road, a continuation of the B4194 leads northwest to Dowles and in the direction of the Wyre Forest. To the northeast of the community is the wooded hilltop of Wassel Wood in Trimpley, the southern terminus of Shatterford Hill. In the location between Stourport as well as Bewdley there are a number of huge lodge, amongst which Witley Court, Astley Hall as well as Pool Residence are particularly considerable.
