Is Tenbury Wells smell deterring tourists?

Pungent smells from drains along with parking charges are being blamed following claims tourists are shunning a market town on the south Shropshire border.

Residents living in Tenbury Wells claim visitors are being put off by having to pay to use the Teme Street car park in the town, while other writers on the Tenbury Blog said in warm weather some drains in the town gave off a strong odour.

The comments come after Chris Dell, of Tenbury Tourism Group, claimed Tenbury's streets had been near-deserted during the height of the summer holidays.

But staff at the town's tourist information centre have claimed visits to their shop are up on the same period last year.

One blogger wrote: "Tenbury looks scruffy - visitors usually arrive over that tatty bridge, then they pass the rundown and overgrown former council buildings. On warm days there's often a horrid drains smell in part of the town, the whole place has never been tidied up properly since the floods."

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