About The Bull Inn Butcher Row
The Bull Inn Butcher Row is a friendly and welcoming Inn in the centre of Shrewsbury. The current landlord Mark
Glennister and his team do their utmost to make all their guests, whether it's for just one night or a few nights, feel
right at home. Our kitchens produce a high standard of freshly prepared food every day, that compliment our excellent range of beer and fine wines. The accommodation for bed and breakfast range from single rooms to an elegantfour Poster bedroom. Some are en-suite, all have colour television and tea and coffee making facilities.
A brief history
Throughout it's history this street has been the centre of the butchers trade in Shrewsbury. At one time it was known as
the Flesh Shambles, then as the Double Butcher Row, to distinguish it from Single Butcher Row on Pride Hill, and finally to its present name just Butcher Row. Until the 19th century animals were still being slaughtered in this street;
very unpleasant for the inhabitants specially on hot summer days.Butchery must have been a very thirsty business as at one stage there were six public houses with such names as the Tankerville Arms, the Lamb, The Rising Sun, the Cock and the Butchers Arms once stood in Butcher Row. The Bull Inn is the last surviving inn on the row and the name can be linkedto the street for nearly 400 years. In St Alkmunds Parish Register the inn is mentioned in 1624 and again in 1645.