Welcome to Severn House Caravans

Built pre 1600 as a pub close to the ford. The drive in front of the house was then the A5 road with the present pond base a stable for extra horses to help coaches in and out of the river when fording. A wooden bridge and Toll House were built in 1637 but floods swept the bridge away about 50 years later.

The Toll House is still at the top of the drive. Thomas Telford designed a new bridge to be built in sandstone which opened in 1792 and was widened for 2 way traffic in 1948. In 1992 a new bridge was built for the A5 road to bypass the village which is now much quieter.

The house and small farm has been owned from 1950 and has been renovated in keeping with 'the old style'. New leaded windows are as recent as 1996 but made to an Elizabethan design. The shiled on the wall facing the drive is to an old Shropshire County design and made by a local iron foundy to be the end of a tie bar to help support the wall. There are 10 acres for sheep grazing and about 3 acres of trees, al put in about 1980 and including many of the local damson trees. These were not grown for their fruit, but for the deep blue/purple dye before artificial dyes were available.

The camp site is 1.5 acres along 300m of the River Severn with another 100m dog walk through the trees. Fishing is possible over the whole of the 400m stretch.