residents expressing interest for a festival of arts, culture and entertainment. It ran for three years, spawning groups such as an amateur dramatics company and a children's manga society. Transport Buses are provided by Arriva Midlands and Banga Buses providing links to Telford, Wolverhampton and Bridgnorth. The main railway station is on the Shrewsbury-Wolverhampton Line with services to Shrewsbury, Telford, Wolverhampton and Birmingham New Street. Routes Places of interest Churches Church of England: St Andrew's Church on Church Street has a Norman chancel with an Elizabethan double-hammerbeam roof and was almost certainly built on the site of an older Saxon church. Its churchyard contains war graves of 13 soldiers of the First World War and 4 of the Second World War, who are all commemorated by a Screen Wall memorial. Methodist: Trinity Church, Victoria Road Roman Catholic: St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury Road It also has, through Churches Together in Shifnal, its own Christian bookshop and drop-in centre, Oasis. Communal services A community library run by the council is located on Broadway. The Millennium Sensory Garden lies between St Andrew's Church and Innage Road and contains the town's war memorial. The garden is voluntarily maintained by a dedicated group of committee members and friends and obtained the Queen's Golden Jubilee Award 2003 and Green Pennant Award 2007–08. Shifnal Police Station, behind the library, was closed in 2013, but re-opened in August 2019 as a community cafe and gardens. Sports There are several sporting facilities in Shifnal, including the Idsall Sports Centre, which is attached to Idsall School; the school, in the past, receiving a number of prominent football celebrities from the nearby FA School of Excellence at Lilleshall. The town is also home to sporting clubs which play sports including: Table tennis Rugby Football Tennis Cricket Basketball Shifnal Town FC currently compete in the , whilst Shifnal United are in the lower Mercian Regional Football League (Premier Division). Shifnal formerly had a squash club and swimming pool for 35 years, but these have closed, replaced with a housing development. Shifnal Golf Club was opened in 1913. Initially its course was nine holes on Lodge Hill, to the south of the town, where seven winds are said to meet. The clubhouse was then a room in a private house, Sunnyside. Education There are several pre-school nursery and day centres in the town, as well as two primary schools: Shifnal Primary School, on