The small town of Much Wenlock is an unlikely place to search for the origins of the modern Olympic games, yet here in 1850 Dr. William Penny Brooks founded the Wenlock Olympian Society and the town's annual Olympian games. At the museum you can disc ...
Shipton Hall was built around 1587, due to a fire distroying the previous house earlier in the century. The house is exquisite and surrounded by an old fashioned beautiful garden. ...
The tranquil ruins of medieval Wenlock Priory stand in a garden setting on the fringe of beautiful Much Wenlock. An Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded here in about 680 by King Merewalh of Mercia,whose abbess daughter Milburge was hailed as a saint. H ...
Elizabethan gabled manor house. Standing on the slopes of Wenlock Edge with fine views, the house dates from 1585. Although unfurnished, the interior is of interest for its remarkable wooden spiral staircase and fine plaster ceilings. ...
Much Wenlock Museum