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“River Severn, Shrewsbury” — Willows line the River Severn, Shrewsbury, England. We spent a couple… continue: gdanmitchell.com/2026/10/21/r... #england #photo #photography #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography #nature #travel

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…of days in the quaint English town (center) of Shrewsbury this past June. After close to three weeks of exploring Scotland and Ireland followed by a weeklong walk in the Cotswolds, we had several weeks left to visit various English towns and cities. Shrewsbury sounded like…

I’ve enjoyed your images made your travels around England. I live in Worcester so am relatively close to both Shrewsbury and the Cotswold where you walked. It’s good to see how an American, more at home in the wonders of the Seirra Nevada, sees the English countryside.

Good to hear from you, Nick. We've enjoyed every visit to England over the years. As typical Yanks, we started with London and then gradually began to work our way outwards over the years. This was the most "outwards" visit so far, as we went to a number of cities and towns that we had not...

...been to before — some large, like Bath and Liverpool, and some smaller, like Shrewsbury. We've enjoyed every one of them and we start to feel like we are moving a bit past the "typical American tourist" orientation to your country. You are right that places like The Cotswolds present a very...

...different sort of landscape than some of the more famous examples in California — our Sierra Nevada, deserts, redwood trees, and rugged coastlines. (Though we've seen some of the latter in Scotland.) But the Cotswolds were mostly quite charming, and a very enjoyable place to walk.