diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 0a8cc9db89..6cd825e39c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Changelog
  * Changed project template to explicitly import development settings via `settings.dev` (Tomas Olander)
  * Improved L10N and I18N for revisions list (Roel Bruggink)
  * The multiple image uploader now displays details of server errors (Nigel Fletton)
+ * Added `WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH` setting to determine whether page URLs end in a trailing slash (Andrew Tork Baker)
  * Fix: The currently selected day is now highlighted only in the correct month in date pickers (Jonas Lergell)
  * Fix: Fixed crash when an image without a source file was resized with the "dynamic serve view"
  * Fix: Registered settings admin menu items now show active correctly (Matthew Downey)
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
index d96651cc49..e935697e31 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ Contributors
 * Yannick Chabbert
 * Andy Babic
 * Tomas Olander
+* Andrew Tork Baker
 
 Translators
 ===========
diff --git a/docs/advanced_topics/settings.rst b/docs/advanced_topics/settings.rst
index a3d411c1ba..32ab5d20ba 100644
--- a/docs/advanced_topics/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/advanced_topics/settings.rst
@@ -150,6 +150,29 @@ Site Name
 This is the human-readable name of your Wagtail install which welcomes users upon login to the Wagtail admin.
 
 
+.. _append_slash:
+
+Append Slash
+------------
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+  # Don't add a trailing slash to Wagtail-served URLs
+  WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH = False
+
+Similar to Django's ``APPEND_SLASH``, this setting controls how Wagtail will handle requests that don't end in a trailing slash.
+
+When ``WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH`` is ``True`` (default), requests to Wagtail pages which omit a trailing slash will be redirected by Django's `CommonMiddleware`_ to a URL with a trailing slash.
+
+When ``WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH`` is ``False``, requests to Wagtail pages will be served both with and without trailing slashes. Page links generated by Wagtail, however, will not include trailing slashes.
+
+.. note::
+
+  If you use the ``False`` setting, keep in mind that serving your pages both with and without slashes may affect search engines' ability to index your site. See `this Google Webmaster Blog post`_ for more details.
+
+.. _commonmiddleware: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/middleware/#module-django.middleware.common
+.. _this Google Webmaster Blog post: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html
+
 Search
 ------
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.5.rst b/docs/releases/1.5.rst
index 61b29a1e39..bc03418d17 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.5.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/1.5.rst
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ Minor features
  * Changed project template to explicitly import development settings via ``settings.dev`` (Tomas Olander)
  * Improved L10N and I18N for revisions list (Roel Bruggink)
  * The multiple image uploader now displays details of server errors (Nigel Fletton)
+ * Added ``WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH`` setting to determine whether page URLs end in a trailing slash - see :ref:`append_slash` (Andrew Tork Baker)
 
 Bug fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/wagtail/wagtailcore/models.py b/wagtail/wagtailcore/models.py
index 91ba09a9b7..c9a6409f6b 100644
--- a/wagtail/wagtailcore/models.py
+++ b/wagtail/wagtailcore/models.py
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ from wagtail.utils.deprecation import SearchFieldsShouldBeAList
 from wagtail.wagtailcore.query import PageQuerySet, TreeQuerySet
 from wagtail.wagtailcore.signals import page_published, page_unpublished
 from wagtail.wagtailcore.url_routing import RouteResult
-from wagtail.wagtailcore.utils import camelcase_to_underscore, resolve_model_string
+from wagtail.wagtailcore.utils import (
+    WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH, camelcase_to_underscore, resolve_model_string)
 from wagtail.wagtailsearch import index
 
 logger = logging.getLogger('wagtail.core')
@@ -784,6 +785,13 @@ class Page(six.with_metaclass(PageBase, MP_Node, ClusterableModel, index.Indexed
         for (site_id, root_path, root_url) in Site.get_site_root_paths():
             if self.url_path.startswith(root_path):
                 page_path = reverse('wagtail_serve', args=(self.url_path[len(root_path):],))
+
+                # Remove the trailing slash from the URL reverse generates if
+                # WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH is False and we're not trying to serve
+                # the root path
+                if not WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH and page_path != '/':
+                    page_path = page_path.rstrip('/')
+
                 return (site_id, root_url, page_path)
 
     @property
diff --git a/wagtail/wagtailcore/urls.py b/wagtail/wagtailcore/urls.py
index fe33985b3d..3a7ad5139b 100644
--- a/wagtail/wagtailcore/urls.py
+++ b/wagtail/wagtailcore/urls.py
@@ -3,15 +3,26 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
 from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from wagtail.wagtailcore import views
+from wagtail.wagtailcore.utils import WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH
+
+
+if WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH:
+    # If WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH is True (the default value), we match a
+    # (possibly empty) list of path segments ending in slashes.
+    # CommonMiddleware will redirect requests without a trailing slash to
+    # a URL with a trailing slash
+    serve_pattern = r'^((?:[\w\-]+/)*)$'
+else:
+    # If WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH is False, allow Wagtail to serve pages on URLs
+    # with and without trailing slashes
+    serve_pattern = r'^([\w\-/]*)$'
+
 
 urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^_util/authenticate_with_password/(\d+)/(\d+)/$', views.authenticate_with_password,
         name='wagtailcore_authenticate_with_password'),
 
-    # Front-end page views are handled through Wagtail's core.views.serve mechanism.
-    # Here we match a (possibly empty) list of path segments, each followed by
-    # a '/'. If a trailing slash is not present, we leave CommonMiddleware to
-    # handle it as usual (i.e. redirect it to the trailing slash version if
-    # settings.APPEND_SLASH is True)
-    url(r'^((?:[\w\-]+/)*)$', views.serve, name='wagtail_serve')
+    # Front-end page views are handled through Wagtail's core.views.serve
+    # mechanism
+    url(serve_pattern, views.serve, name='wagtail_serve')
 ]
diff --git a/wagtail/wagtailcore/utils.py b/wagtail/wagtailcore/utils.py
index b0daa28416..c0f1e4ed61 100644
--- a/wagtail/wagtailcore/utils.py
+++ b/wagtail/wagtailcore/utils.py
@@ -4,12 +4,16 @@ import re
 import unicodedata
 
 from django.apps import apps
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.db.models import Model
 from django.utils.encoding import force_text
 from django.utils.six import string_types
 from django.utils.text import slugify
 
 
+WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH = getattr(settings, 'WAGTAIL_APPEND_SLASH', True)
+
+
 def camelcase_to_underscore(str):
     # http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/585/
     return re.sub('(((?<=[a-z])[A-Z])|([A-Z](?![A-Z]|$)))', '_\\1', str).lower().strip('_')