Pig Trough is a passage that cuts off the corner from Coton Hill to Berwick Road.

Not sure whose jacket that is!



Houses on the southern side of Pig Trough - here the passage is at its widest point.



Sadly graffiti artists have been to work all over Pig Trough.



The Berwick Road end is narrower.

The Flash is walk close to the river in the Coton Hill area immediately to the north west of the town centre. It runs from the middle of Pig Trough to Gravel Hill Lane near the West Midlands Show Ground.

Start of The Flash on Pig Trough



It has nice views over the river (which this photo doesn't show!)



As well as the occasional ghostly shadow...



Not forgetting this ornate garden bridge

Hermitage Walk is an odd mixture of road, passage and pavement which leads from Drinkwater Street in Frankwell to Darwin's birthplace on the Mount.

It starts as an access road for cottages behind Frankwell Island.



Then it becomes a narrower foot passage between walls.



Finally it leads onto The Mount, where it becomes an elevated pavement on the north side of the road until it reaches Darwin's birthplace.

Water Lane is another mixture of path types.

It starts in Frankwell as an access road between old buildings near the Littleboro Fish and Chip Shop



When it reaches the river, the name "Water Lane" is applied to the riverside path from here towards Porthill.

Unfortunately, the middle part of the path was under water when I visited!



Water Lane veers back away from the river in a fairly narrow foot passage between the terraced houses on New Streets. Hens are kept in one of the back yards here.



Finally, Water Lane emerges on New Street, with proof that the name applies to the whole path.

Great Pictures Town Walls, I did not even know they existed.

As for the graffiti I once saw daubed on a Shrewsbury wall "Jemma is a sl*g and she bought her car on finance" it was mildly amusing!

Some good ones there Town Walls - another one I can think of is Egland Lane in Coleham. It runs between Longden Coleham and Belle Vue Road.

Also there's a good long (but un-named) passage between Monkmoor Road and Clifford Street, which runs past the Whitehall buildings.

Just had a wander around Frankwell today and there's one or two passages between Frankwell and Nettles Lane. Worth a look if your out and about that way.

Egland Lane is a passage which cuts off the corner for pedestrians between Belle Vue Road and Longden Coleham. It also gives access to Egland Cottages and a small number of more recent houses.



From the Belle Vue end, Egland Lane starts as the rear access for the Boars Head.



This somewhat less than exciting photo is a view from the narrowest section of Egland Lane.



There is an anti-bike barrier at the Longden Coleham end, with the top bar painted yellow in standard Shrewsbury style.

School Lane runs between Longden Coleham and Belle Vue Road. It is divided into two by Salters Lane and, although the name applies to both, the two halves are quite different in character.

It starts near Coleham Primary School, presumably hence the name.



At this end it is wide enough for cars



On the other side of Salters Lane, the path is narrower and is suitable only for pedestrians. It passes by the side of Holy Trinity Church.

The Whitehall Path - this path does not appear to have a name (at least, not on SABC's interactive map), so I have invented a name for it. It runs between Monkmoor Road and Clifford Street.

Anti-bike bars at the Monkmoor Road, plus a warning sign just in case those pesky cyclists haven't got the message...



Not terribly exciting at this point, although the path does go past the Whitehall Buildings, the local DVLA offices, the Job Centre and other delights.



The path passes along the side of The Cottage. Sadly, the white-painted plaster is too much of a temptation for chavs with pens, who clearly divide their time between here and the Dana (given that the same names appear in both places). In the distance, part of the building is protected by a truly vicious looking length of curved spikes.



The path emerges between houses on Clifford Street. The building on the left is a roof-tile merchants, and there are stacks of tiles in the back yard.

Beehive Lane is not a passage in the same way as the shuts in the town centre, but I have included it here because it shows some of the variety of paths that exist around Shrewsbury.

It runs from Kingsland Road (from almost opposite Kingsland Bridge Approach / Canonbury) to meet the Cinder Path.




At the start it is wide enough for cars



But it gets narrower



Until it meets the Cinder Path, opposite this tipsy looking lampost

The Cinder Path is another path that passes through open ground rather than a built-up area. It runs between Kennedy Road in Kingsland to the top end of Longden Road across the valley of the Rad Brook, so it is sloping on both sides.

It is useful as a shortcut should you need to walk from Town Walls to the Cemetery (OK, not many people apart from me ever need to do this, but it's reasonably useful anyway).

It starts on Kennedy Road, opposite the junction with Greville Road.



Some of the worst graffiti to be found in Shrewsbury is found on the electricity sub-station down here.



Bridge over the Rad Brook



It gets steeper on the other side of the bridge



And narrower too



Until the path is no more than a squeeze between two conifer hedges.



Finally, the entrance on Longden Road. There is a (slightly perished) 'Cycling Prohibited' sign next to the anti-bike bars. No cheeky short-cuts home from Sainsbury's allowed, do you understand?

Cemetery Walk is a long and rather romantically named path that runs Longden Road along the side of the General Cemetery to Drawwell Street near Hereford Road.

At the Drawwell Street end, there are more of those tall anti-bike bars; these examples have square corners, like the ones on the Cinder Path (although not rounded like those on School Lane), but without the slight overhang on each side.



The first bit runs next to a field



Then there are general views of the Cemetery (at least if you're tall)





Before the path emerges on Longden Road

More interesting pics,

thank you Town Walls for taking the time to share them :)

Good stuff Town Walls - another two you may want to do are Sparrow Lane off Abbey Foregate and Gas Works Lane off New Park Road. :)

Just a note to say, I appreciate you posting the pictures of Shrewsbury. I'm afraid there are not many locations that look too familiar to me since I was last there in 1979! I was only 19 at the time and I didn't appreciate the architecture and surroundings as much as I should have. I suppose I had other things on my mind. Am looking forward to visiting next year...but will only have a few days in Shrewsbury and not a couple of weeks like I had in '79. Again, thanks for the pics!

wow u took me back to my childhood then i used to walk the cinder path with my mum,

when I used to walk the Cinder path I used to have to hold my breath as the the smell of fresh strawberries makes me nauseous.

s.g.d.

i remeber a few times goin strawberry picking and eatin more than we bought lol :D

Hammonds Terrace (also known as Hammonds Passage) is a short passage framed by 28-31 Coton Hill. It leads to a smal courtyard and a row of eight terraced houses built in the 1870s.



The painted wooden sign reads "Hammonds Terrace / Public Passage".



The courtyard at the end of Hammonds Terrace.

Copthorne Rise is one of several side roads leading off the Frankwell end of Copthorne Road, although it is the only one (I think) that is too narrow for cars.



Like the nearby terraces in Copthorne Road, these two-storey terraced cottages were built on the site of sand and gravel pits in the 1870s.



A distant and non-direct relative of mine (a grandaughter of my great great grandfather, I'm not sure of what the precise term is!) spent her early married life at one of the houses in Copthorne Rise in the early 1920s.

Gasworks Lane is a long path which leads from by the Canal Tavern in New Park Road to the Flax Mill in St Michael's Street. The gasworks was situated in the corner of land between Castle Foregate and New Park Road.



Although I don't actually know for certain, it looks from evidence on the ground and from old maps that the first part of Gasworks Lane is part of the old towpath for the Shrewsbury Canal.





The recreation ground near the end of Gasworks Lane is built on the site of brickfields.



A view of the Flax Mill at the Ditherington end of the path.

it is the old canal bed up until your last picture which is the site of the old factory bridge.

the canal passed under the bridge and then ran along the front of the flax mill(maltings) before crossing under Comet bridge by the Comet pub(now the Coach).

s.g.d.

Thanks for continuing the passages theme, Town Walls. :)

Didn't know about the Copthorne Rise one! :blink: Is there a good view from it?

I sometimes use Gas Works Lane when I walk home from town - I go via The Dana, then Beacall's Lane and then Gas Works Lane.

Found a real shut in Abbey Foregate yesterday - it runs down the right hand side of the Crown Inn pub, which is located on the smaller Abbey Foregate road (ie the one-way street behind the church). The passage leads from Abbey Foregate to Railway Terrace, via the back of Providence Grove.

If anyone hasn't been around this area behind the frontage on Abbey Foregate it's worth a little look as it is a little secret area of Shrewsbury. Other than going via this shut, you would normally go via Railway Lane. There's a street called Portobello at the end of Railway Lane on your left and the newly built Railway Terrace is on your right. Providence Grove is the row of houses on the right side of Railway Lane. Going past Railway Terrace there's a bowling green. The Abbey railway loop line (which takes trains from the Hereford line to the Wolverhampton line without going through the station) arcs around the area.

Okay, here's a photo of the Abbey Foregate-Providence Grove shut:



And also here's one of the entrance to a passage I found yesterday which links The Mount with Hafren Close:



The other end of this passage isn't so attractive.

These photos have been waiting on my hard drive since May - so this is a good opportunity to put them up.

Here is the middle of the path between The Mount and Hafren Close. I have tried to lighten the photo, but please bear in mind that it was taken at 6am! The lamppost is rather ornate.



The entrance to the path on Hafren Close. Apparently, the houses on Hafren Close were built by the council in 1934 for families displaced by slum clearance on Barker Street.

"Apparently, the houses on Hafren Close were built by the council in 1934 for families displaced by slum clearance on Barker Street."

Those new houses (new back then of course) would have been a wonderful step up for the families in the "West End" slums, cleared to create the car parks we know and the old bus station. The clearance revealed Rowley's House, which had been surrounded by lesser buildings. Rowley's House was found to be in a bad state (I have photos of it in the 30s) and it was a good thing they didn't demolish it!

I am worried for the future of Rowley's,has anyone got a spare 2 million so that I can save it for the people of Shrewsbury?

I always thought that that was what Morris' did in the 1930's

s.g.d.

p.s. if anyone gives me the money,they can have the S1 bus stop.

I'm looking forward to the area around Rowley's House being redeveloped - the Barker Street car park is to be built on (commercial/residential mix I presume), the old bus stand remaining may become part of an extended methodist church grounds and the Bridge Street and St Austin Street car parks will be merged. Not too sure what the council quite have in mind with Rowley's House (other than selling it) - it's going to be a headhache converting it into anything!

I may be out and about today or tomorrow (despite the huge crowds going to and from the flower show) and will take snaps of the passages between Frankwell and Nettles Lane, as well as the Dana Steps in Castlefields.

Continuing the theme of pre-motor car era passages of various types, this time in the Copthorne / Mount area.

Barracks Lane, more or less parallel to the Mount, follows the original course of the road to Wales, abandoned as a backwater when Telford's new road was opened. Although a section can still be driven along, part of it is now only a footpath.

The view from Barracks Lane across Richmond Drive.



The view back across Richmond Drive.



The path has recently been re-surfaced, so there's less need to fight your way through stinging nettles than there was last year.



I'm hoping that this might be the remains of a holloway.



Towards the end of the path, it has been widened as part of the access drive to houses.



You don't see many 15mph speed limits! The Shelton Fields end.

Nealors Lane is a long path running between The Mount and Copthorne Road.



As with Barracks Lane, part of it serves as the access drive to houses.



Then it disappears at the end of back gardens on Hafren Road.



As a bonus, a spur of Nealors Lane leads to the end of Granville Street.





I'm tempted to wander up there at night with a tin of emulsion and a brush so that I can add the missing letter 'e' and apostrophe.



The last section of the path has some nice old brick walls.



Finally we are on Copthorne Road.