Entertainment in The Marches
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Old Market Hall
Hobnob with the local arts brigade in this posh café-bar in the old drapers hall, underneath a stunning timbered roof and styled to combine city chic with cosy rustic touches. As well as speciality teas, soul-restoring coffees and wines, it serves up a range of sandwiches, wraps, and calorific pastries. It's based in a lively film and media centre.
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Black Lion
The more real ales and local ciders you knock back in this traditional pub, the more you may believe the tales that there are resident ghosts from the site's history as a monastery, an orphanage, a brothel and even a Chinese restaurant.
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Three Fishes
The quintessential small English alehouse, with a jolly owner, mellow regulars and hops hanging from the 15th-century beamed ceiling. No music here, just real ales on tap and the refreshing atmosphere of a pub that has long been sending smokers outside.
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Boat House Inn
Summer evenings are well spent in the riverside beer garden of this otherwise unexceptional pub, enjoying a view back over the sprawling Quarry Park and the baby-sized Port Hill Suspension Bridge, opened in 1922.
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Peach Tree
A cosy combination of timber-framed antiquity and comfortable modern style, this café-bar also has streetside seating opposite the abbey and can be relied upon for all-day food and drinks.
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C21
A polished city-chic club for over-25s to indulge in late-night cocktails and dance-floor acrobatics. Also home to Shrewsbury's main lesbigay night on Monday.
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Ego Café-Bar
Surround yourself with images of Hollywood starlets at Ego Café-Bar, which also has secluded courtyard seating and Sunday-afternoon jazz.
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Old Market Hall Film & Digital Media Centre
For mainstream and arthouse movies in an Elizabethan setting, try the Old Market Hall Film & Digital Media Centre.
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Church Inn
For an atmospheric pint of real ale, traditional hop-strewn pub the Church Inn is tucked away on narrow Buttercross.
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Courtyard Centre for the Arts
This lively arts centre has two venues staging a busy schedule of comedy, theatre, film and poetry.
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Wheatsheaf Inn
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Three Tuns Brewery
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Old Market Hall Film & Digital Media
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Ludlow Brewing Company
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Ludlow Assembly Rooms
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Carding Mill Valley Tea-Room
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Bog
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Three Tuns
Bishop's Castle's finest watering hole is attached to the tiny Three Tuns Brewery, which has been rolling barrels of nut-brown ale across the courtyard since 1642. It's a cosy local and the ales are delicious – we recommend the Cleric's Cure.
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Three Fishes
The quintessential creaky Tudor alehouse, with a jolly publican, mellow regulars and hops hanging from the 15th-century beamed ceiling.
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Theatre Severn
This expansive riverside theatre and music venue opened in 2009 to great acclaim, hosting everything from pop gigs and comedy nights to plays and classical concerts.
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Theatre of Small Convenience
This curious place is set in a converted Victorian public lavatory decked out with theatrical Italian-ate flourishes. With just 12 seats, and a program that runs from puppet shows to opera, it feels like something cooked up by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam.
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Six Bells Inn
This historic 17th-century coaching inn is alive with loyal locals and ramblers who come to sample ales from its adjoining brewery. The pub also has a reputation for traditional English comfort food such as homemade pies and Big Nev's bangers made with local ale.
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Marr's Bar
The best live-music venue for miles around, Marr's still has its original sprung dance floors from its days as a dance studio. You can bounce on them to your heart's content most nights, thanks to a lively schedule of gigs and shows.
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Malvern Theatres
One of the country's best provincial theatres, this long-established cultural hub packs in a lively program of classical music, dance, comedy, drama and cinema. Several nearby restaurants offer good value pre-theatre menus.
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Jailhouse
Edgy, underground DJs are coming out of the woodwork at Hereford's leading club. Look out for secret sets by big-name spinners.
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