Much Wenlock

At the beginning of August my wife and I embarked on a weekend away as the lockdown restrictions were eased, booking a lovely cottage through airbnb on the outskirts of an historic market town called Much Wenlock at the top end of the Shropshire Hills AONB.The cottage was beautiful and only a 10 minute walk into Much Wenlock town centre.Our first evening was spent doing the local town walk which I downloaded onto my mobile,this was thoroughly enjoyable and lasted around an hour taking in all the local history on the way.

Our first pint of the evening after finishing the walk was in the George and Dragon thebestpubintheworld.com,a pint of HPA (Hereford Pale Ale) was ordered and a large pinot Grigiot for my wife and we headed for the beer garden with it being a lovely sunny evening.The beer garden turned out to be a small alleyway at the side of the pub with only 3 or 4 tables but wasn’t an issue as it was nicely laid out.The HPA went down a treat and another was ordered.The pub was serving food on this visit and it looked so tasty that we decided to book a table for Sunday lunch.Next stop The fox in,a few minutes walk from the George and on the way back to the cottage foxinnmuchwenlock.co.uk a 16th century inn that’s been refurbished to a very high standard. Again headed for the beer garden found a lovely patio with around 10-12 tables.A nice pint of Shropshire Pale Ale was ordered and was very fine indeed.

Back at the cottage we decided to have a little drink in the gazebo nicely situated outside the back door,my choice was a Marstons Pedigree and my wife had a glass of 19 Crimes chardonnay, the Marstons went down a treat but although the wine was a reletively expensive one (for our standards anyway)Angie wasn’t too keen and I ended up finishing her glass whilst she opted for a Rattler a very tasty Cornish cider.The sun had now gone down and after a good distance travelled and walked and drank this first day it was time for some rest.