A guide, descriptive and historical, through the Town of Shrewsbury

by W. A. Leighton

THE TOWN WALLS,

now reduced in height and stripped of its battlements, forms an useful and agreeable public walk. This and the Walls on the north side of the town, called Roushill Walls, extending from the Castle Gates to the Welsh Bridge, are all the existing remains of our ancient fortifications, which, when entire, could not have been much less than a mile and half in compass.

At the end of the walls, on the left, is