The Nag's Head, Shrewsbury

This medieval building stands just up the hill from the English Bridge, its overhanging eaves spectacularly setting it out from the flat brick walls of its neighbours. The pub isn’t particularly large or spacious and the general ambience leans towards the rock / indie side of things that would attract student types. The unpretentious and quite basic interior is split into 2 distinct areas with a small central bar and has quite a scruffy and random appearance with walls plastered with a selection of posters, adverts and brewery mirrors. The 5 ales are a bit unadveturous by Shrewsbury standards; Courage Best, Bombardier, Landlord, Youngs and Hobgoblin on my visit. The most interesting aspect of the pub is out the back in the large beer garden where the skeletal remains of a 14th century building now double up as one of the more bizarre smoker’s shelters that you will come across in a pub. Shrewsbury is full of interesting and varied pubs and whilst the Nags Head wouldn’t be among the first on the list, it is certainly worth popping in, especially when there is wall to wall Thin Lizzy on the jukebox.