11. Back Lane & The Bull Ring
Turn and retrace your steps along the High Street and turn left into Back Lane.

Part-way down on your left you will see a fine example of a cruck-frame house - St Owen’s Well House and in the wall on the outside of the house is St Owen’s well itself. Cruck frame means 2 matching curved beams that meet at the gabled end, this could be one of Wenlock’s oldest buildings.

If you were to refer to our page Wenlock Name you would learn that St. Owen, a French monk, visited Much Wenlock in the 6th century and this well may have been the reason for establishing the Priory.

Bear right onto Queen Street and on the left is one of the last remaining working ”in-town “ farms (Brookhouse Farm). The farmyard is picturesque and the buildings are centred around what they call the centre fold, medieval in origin. Sometimes during the year there is livestock in the barns, otherwise they are out in fields surrounding the town.

At the T-junction, you are in what they call The Bullring, where they did indeed bait bulls at one time.

Directly across the street on the corner is the Old Bank building (1829), now a private house. Next door is the Old Police Station (1864). It is made of special blue bricks, believed to have been made in Broseley.

Two doors up from the Old Police Station is a half-timbered building called Bastard Hall. You can see the name on the side wall by the drive. The BBC Time Team televised the history of building a number of years ago.

A liitle further on the left you will see the entrance to Wenlock Pottery, well worth a stop for some shopping!

Arriving at the T-junction, you will see some stone bridge abutments on the right which were part of the rail line. Take a right here and you will be back on Station Road where your walk started.

The end of the Walk

As you walked, we hope you looked up at windows, building adornments, window tax windows, roof lines, chimney designs etc. Or did you think to look down at the old cobbles, the Olympic Trail markers or look for the rapidly disappearing wildflowers along the road side or in the fields?

The more you look about, with an enquiring mind, the more you will find that makes Much Wenlock so special.

If you take your children you might like to make the walk into a little quiz once you have finished - see the next page!

Click here for the Wenlock Walk Quiz

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