Buildwas

From the Tern to the meanders at Buildwas – the "was" in its name meaning a place of flash floods – to the head of the Ironbridge Gorge where all this water was choked into a narrow gap to go roiling southwards, the Severn was reclaiming its lands.

Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

The tops of the cooling towers at Buildwas power station vanished as a drizzly mist filled Ironbridge Gorge, spilling over the wooded banks and up along the Edge.

Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2010

Buildwas power station droned, generating electricity for a grid straining under the pressure of the cold spell, and its plume of darker grey spread westward into the fog.

Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2010

He came to Buildwas on foot, carrying only a scrip like any other pilgrim, though to be sure his boy Hyacinth also carried a pack for him.

The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

They were wondering whether to move you back to Eaton in the night, since it's been searched already, but Dame Dionisia felt sure the officers had several days 'work left before they'd reach Leighton, and in any case, she said, if a proper watch was set there'd be ample time to put you over the river with an escort and send you down to shelter at Buildwas.

The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

And chooses a cell and a little square of garden in the woods rather than a grey habit at Buildwas!

The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

There were two grey-habited monks from the Savigniac house of Buildwas, a few miles away down-river, to which Ludel had been a generous patron on occasion, and with them, though withdrawn modestly throughout into the background, was a personage less easily identifiable.

The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

Savigny had been at Buildwas now for some forty years, a foundation of Roger de Clinton, bishop of Lichfield.

The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

The brothers of Savigny from Buildwas brought him to us, ask them, they have no doubts.

The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

'Father Andrew tells me,' he reported after the visitor had departed, 'that since the Savigniac brothers from Buildwas brought this Cuthred into her house she sets great store by his counsel, and rules herself by his advice and example.

The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987