Attingham ParkAttingham Park Estate: CronkhillColeham Pumping StationShrewsbury AbbeyShrewsbury Castle and The Shropshire Regimental MuseumShrewsbury Museum and Art GalleryTown Walls Tower
Elegant 18th-century mansion with Regency interiors and deer park. One of the great houses of the Midlands, Attingham Park was built in 1785 for the 1st Lord Berwick to the design of George Steuart and has a picture gallery by John Nash. The magnific ...
First and best-known example of John Nash's Italianate villa designs, built in 1805. The three principal ground-floor rooms, the staircase hall and the grounds are open to visitors on six days in 2006. ...
Coleham Pumping Station was built in 1900 to house two massive steam-driven beam engines. The beam engines were built by Renshaws of Stoke to pump sewage as part of Shrewsbury's new sewerage system. The coal-fired pumps were used until 1970. ...
Shrewsbury Abbey is full of history.
In 1283 the first English Parliament in which the Commons had a legal share took place in the Abbey Chapter House, and in 1398 Richard II summoned the Great Parliament in the Abbey.
The Abbey was finally su ...
The oldest parts of the Castle were built between 1066 and 1074, during the reign of William the Conqueror. There were additions over several centuries. Later, in the late 18th century, Thomas Telford remodelled the interior as a private house. The C ...
Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery at Rowley's House occupies two adjoining buildings, one of which is timber-framed (originally built as a merchant's warehouse in the 16th or early 17th Century) and the other a stone and brick building built around 161 ...
Shrewsbury's last remaining watchtower. Built in the 14th century, the tower overlooks the River Severn.
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