Alveley.

I visited this pretty little village for the first time during October 2000. The reason for my visit was to see the church (St. Mary's) where a number of one line of my ancestry were married, baptised and buried. I was not disappointed, the church stands in all its splendour, much like I would have imagined it in the early part of the 18th Century when my `Head' family would have been part of its congregation. Both my husband and myself spent a short time around the village itself, which impressed us with its compactness and its rural neatness, I think at the time we described it as the typical English rural setting for a village, whose people were both friendly and helpful. Further along the main road of Alveley, we came across the "RED LION" public house, just before entering Shatterford. This again was of interest to us because it was one of our `Head' family who was the first landlord of this house, it was kept in the family for a considerable time. Again we were not to be disappointed, with its olde worlde styling and its unique atmosphere within. We really can't wait to pay our next visit, which I am sure will be as fulfilling as our first, and would certainly recommend it to anyone who wanted to savour a typically English way of life.

Christine Johnson (Caerphilly, South Wales.)