Welcome

Welcome to the Maesbury Blog.

There are a lot of Maesburys. The one I blog about is in Shropshire near Oswestry.

Maesbury is a very boring place. Some like it like that. Others can't wait to leave it. Others want to live in it as a place that is boring - as in little happens - is the the ideal place for them.

Of course some would like to change Maesbury. The come in a number of flavours -

First there are locals. We have locals who want to make money developing a bit of land - not necessarily anywhere near their house or who plan to leave the area after getting the dosh for a spot of house building. Then we have locals who want a place for a relative and want to build something on their land.

More threatening are the outsiders who see the countryside of Maesbury as ideal building land to build 'housing developments in the country' in. In the past such building has been greatly restricted but more recently the councils have changed and the new mob seem to want to push though affordable housing projects to give homes to the locals cheap. Unfortunately their idea of local operates on a system that seems to take in areas far beyond Maesbury so these folks are not locals at all. More on this anon.

For the moment Maesbury Parish (that's the Church of England Parish an not the council one that adds odd bits) is a dreamy place in the countryside with a bit over 400 houses in a bit over a square mile and that place in the 21st century is what this blog is about.

There is a sister blog to this one which is due to be set up dealing with the history of the area but that has yet to be started. But for the moment I will end with a photo of the area to give you a hint of what Maesbury country looks like.