House surveys in Shropshire

Shropshire, including the unitary area of Telford and Wrekin, combines historic market towns with England's best-known industrial heritage site. Shrewsbury, Ludlow and Bridgnorth have medieval and Tudor timber-framed buildings, Georgian townhouses and many listed properties, while Telford new town was built around the Ironbridge Gorge, where coal, ironstone and clay mining left a legacy of old workings and unstable slopes. North Shropshire has red-brick market towns on the Cheshire plain, and the south has hill country around Church Stretton and Clun. Survey themes include Severn flooding, mining and landslip in the Gorge, timber-frame condition and new town construction.