A salty tale: The ford, situated at a point known as Teme’s Green, was in use from prehistoric times, being an important staging post on a trade route which ran to mid-Wales from Bewdley, where the River Severn could be crossed. The village stands sufficiently high to be safe from the regular flooding of the River Teme, a fast-flowing river that rises rapidly when heavy rains fall upstream in the Welsh Borders or Corve Dale. However, in times past, the ford would have been impassable during high water and it is thought that Donkey Lane, in the village, was so-called because it was here that waiting donkeys and pack-horses would have been coralled, waiting for the waters to subside.
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