Callow Inn near Minsterley transformed into Abel's Harp

With the pub trade in the doldrums, many premises are looking for new ways to diversify – and that's just the plan at one rural Shropshire alehouse.

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The unusual £350,000 project of the old Callow Inn, near Minsterley, has seen it transformed by new owners David White, a former London investment banker, and his partner Anna Roberts to become Abel's Harp.

The couple plan to use the old pub – which was mentioned in the books of Mary Webb and has been on the site for more than a century – as a restaurant, guest house, coffee house, wedding venue, book club, village shop when cold weather arrives, petting zoo and, naturally, a pub.