WEM residents wanting to learn more about the history of their local pub will have a chance to later this year as part of a new project.

As pubs all over Shropshire reopen their doors, a new heritage project has been launched to record information about the county's historic hostelries.

Over the next nine months, the team at TDR Heritage will be travelling up and down the Shropshire countryside recording information about a selection of old, rural pub buildings for the Inn Sites project.

The project will help to celebrate that legacy by investigating their past, through the buildings themselves, and the people that use them.

Vicky Hunns, historic building consultant at TDR Heritage, said: "We're all rooting for our local pubs at the moment, but are also aware of the number of closures that have affected these important heritage assets in recent years.

"Our project is focusing on pubs which are not Listed or in a conservation area, and whilst they may not be 'at risk' now, their historic importance is not necessarily flagged if they are the subject of a planning application for alteration, change of use or demolition.

"Our work will make sure that Shropshire Council has a record for each of these 'rural and undesignated' pubs to help them understand their significance."

Meanwhile, Gwendolen Powell, engagement specialist, added: "We also know that the fabric of the building is just part of its story, so our team will be working with communities and interest groups to gather memories which will add to our understanding of the 'significance' of these pubs in the widest sense."

The project hopes to record information about the age of these rural pubs and how much they have changed over the years.

The team will also be collecting and sharing local stories and memories connected to these much-loved community hubs, including a weekly heritage pub quiz on the project's Facebook page.

In September, the team will be hosting a free training day in Wem, Bridgnorth and Bishop's Castle for people interested in learning more about how to explore local history, and the project is working with a documentary photographer to offer young people a chance to learn new digital skills while exploring pub heritage.

The project is also funding a training placement for an early career heritage consultant to give them on-the-job experience of assessing and recording historic buildings.

At the end of the project all the information collected will be shared with Shropshire Archives and become part of Shropshire's Historic Environment Record (HER), the database of information about the county's heritage held by Shropshire Council's historic environment team.

If you have a pub heritage story to share, or want to follow this heritage pub crawl, visit the project on Facebook @InnSites