It lies adjacent to the town centre of Shrewsbury across the River Severn by the Kingsland Bridge, built 1881.

[2] Thomas Anderson, a soldier in the Dragoons was executed, as a deserter and Jacobite sympathizer, near the Butchers' Arbour on Kingsland, on 11 December 1752.

[5] In the early 19th century the Shrewsbury Show was thought to be in decline but it revived after the advent of rail transport to the town.

[2] This measure was a precondition to the residential development of the area for homes of the wealthy, which grew after Shrewsbury School moved there.

The main building was originally built in the 18th century as a foundling hospital, and was later a workhouse for Shrewsbury before the School moved into it from the town centre in 1882.