In a small Shropshire village lies a pub which is the heart of the community
Take a ride into the heart of the South Shropshire countryside and you'll find a pub full of cheer, welcome and good beer.
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When you step away from the maddening crowd and head into the country, the role of a pub can become a vital one for the community it represents.
In rural communities, the pub becomes more than simply a place to enjoy a cold drink or hot meal as it also becomes a place to congregate together as a community and be the centre for social activities in an isolated area.
Take a ride on the B4368 between Clun and Craven Arms and you'll chance upon the small village of Clunton, home to the Crown Inn, a pub with more than 400 years of history in a village named in the Doomsday Book.
While the village has decreased in size over the years, the pub has remained engrained at the centre of it and has become a community-owned pub which, currently, is managed by Blaine Reed and Michelle Coutts.
The couple came to the village six years ago after a decade living and working in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, but Ms Coutts said the couple had wanted to come back to Blaine's Shropshire roots and found it was the perfect pub.
She said: "We were looking to come back to Shropshire as we'd been living in the Forest of Dean for 10 years, but Blaine and myself had had a restaurant in Shropshire before that and we wanted to come back up as his family are all in the county.
