Tenbury Tracks (Heritage Open Days)

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Event Description

The museum will feature displays on the town’s railway line, closed as part of the Beeching Axe in 1963, and also the remains of watery links from the abandoned Teme Valley Canal and the town’s ancient fording links with the River Teme and packhorse route to Wales.

Tenbury’s railway provided passenger transport to connect to nearby Ludlow for residents and secondary school pupils as well as many freight services carrying orchard fruits, vegetables and hops. It was also used for troop movements in the war. The watery links are provided by the town’s situation on the River Teme and its 15th and 17th century arched bridge which has a distinctive bend halfway across and a county change marked in the middle from Shropshire to Worcestershire. Its origins were a ford crossing and it was used as part of a Midlands to Wales packhorse route again for the ancient method of transporting goods. Other information will be available on the abandoned Teme Valley Canal which was intended to provide a transport link from the rural towns of Kington, Leominster and Tenbury Wells to the navigable river Severn at Stourport on Severn.

For Heritage Open Days, we will also host hands-on activities available for children.

Alongside the hands-on activities planned for Saturday 14 September, visitors are able to discover the displays during the museum’s usual opening hours of Tuesday – Saturday, 10.30am – 1pm.

There is no need to book for this event.

Saturday 14 September 2024

10:30am

Tenbury Wells Museum

FREE

Location

Tenbury Wells Museum

53 Cross Street

Tenbury Wells

WR15 8EF

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