"Belle Vue Road" (the A5191, formerly the A49) runs through the middle of the area, which has many public houses such as The Grove, the Belle Vue Tavern, the Masonic Arms and the Boar's Head.

Also in the suburb, off the Belle Vue Road, is the Prince of Wales public house, which has its own bowling green.

In 1852, a 2-acre cemetery for Nonconformists in Shrewsbury was opened on Belle Vue Road but was ultimately superseded by the interdenominational, municipal General Cemetery established on Longden Road further west in 1856.

[2] The consequently disused mortuary chapel, which became a worship place for the Apostolic Church in 1929,[3] was demolished after being partly burned down (by children) in 1943.

It was on part of the cemetery that the present Wellspring Apostolic Church, whose building had been transplanted from Minsterley in 1949, was erected.