Historical and Descriptive Guide Through Shrewsbury

by S. F. Williams

CLAREMONT STREET,

once known by the euphonious title of Doglane. Here we see on the left the oldest Baptist Chapel in Shrewsbury, built in 1780. A Baptist church, however, was formed in Shrewsbury as early as 1620. The chapel was enlarged in 1810, and modernised and renovated in 1867. From Claremont Street we reach

MARDOL,

or, as it was anciently written, Marlesford, Mardefole, and in the time of Henry VIII. Mardvole, from the name of the ford through the Severn, Mar, and Leas (or pastures), which is by interpretation, the ford at the marly pastures. There is no object of historical interest in this thoroughfare, but in the lane about half way down, called