Maesbury Post Office

with Community Shop, Tea Room & Self-catering Accommodation

- and Maesbury Broadplace

@Canal Central
(website in development)

Take the virtual tour - Maesbury Walks can be seen online, then go out and do the real thing. All starting at Canal Central, lots of history and wildlife photos and notes.

2007 News

• Canal Central Case Study - on Shropshire County Council website uploaded April
• Move to save post offices - “Ministers could do worse than visit Maesbury and see a brand new post office . . . . The Government sees the network as an out of date, expensive problem. Maesbury shows it could be a great opportunity.” - Owen Patterson MP, front page SS, February
• Post office with pods for guests - Reporter Toby Walne is touring the country as part of Financial Mail's Save Our Post Offices campaign. His latest trip takes him to beautiful Shropshire and an extremely rare building - a new post office. - Toby Walne, M**l on Sunday, 23 January
• Where is Britain's most modern post office - Where is the most modern post office in Britain? I was surprised to discover it on an isolated stretch of canal in rural Shropshire. Canal Central opened barely three months ago. - The Money Blog, January 19
  
• Owen Patterson MP for North Shropshire: Owen was in Maesbury recently to visit the new Post Office and shop, opened recently by Fiona MacDonald and Iain Campbell. - 11 January, photo below from Owen's website
  

• Key to future for rural post office? - Alongside the picturesque Montgomery Canal at Maesbury Marsh, a smart new environmentally-friendly building in light wood, with an attractive red roof, is now home to Maesbury Post Office, a tempting shop where as much produce as possible is sourced locally, charming tea rooms and a full-blown IT centre with lap tops, printers, laminators and for a lowly annual fee, a modern link to the outside world. Shropshire Star, December 2006
  
  
• Switch on for village Broadplace - The Maesbury community were out in force at the opening of the Switch on Shropshire Community Broadplace. Oswestry Advertiser, October 2006
  
  
• Maesbury Broadplaces launches with a bang! - The community turned out in force to celebrate the opening of the latest Switch on Shropshire Community Broadplace on 16 October at Maesbury Post Office and Tea Rooms at Canal Central. Switch on Shropshire
  
  
• Some progress photos from September 4, 2006
  
  
• The cutting of the first sod, January 2006, with architect's drawings.