Acton BurnellBishops CastleBridgnorthBroseleyBuildwasCantlopChurch StrettonClunDoningtonEllesmereHaughtonIron BridgeLilleshallLudlowMarket DraytonMoreton CorbetMuch WenlockNorburyOswestryQuattShifnalShrewsburyStokesayTelfordUffingtonWemWhitchurchWroxeter
The red sandstone shell of a semi-fortified tower house, built in 1284-93 by Bishop Burnell, Edward I's Lord Chancellor. Parliaments were twice held here, in 1283 and 1285....
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....
Handsome 16th-century house and restored garden. Situated on a plateau above the gorge of the River Severn, this fine stone house has mullioned and transomed windows and a stunning interior with carved oak staircase, decorated plaster ceilings and oa...
You will be welcomed by our costumed staff who will give you a charming insight into life as it was back in the Victorian Times. You can exchange money in the Moc Bank and marvel at the goods in the Bakery, Sweetshop and Grocers. Discover the remark...
Bridgnorth Cliff Railway has been operating up and down the cliffs of Bridnorth for over a centry. It has two carriages on parallel tracks. Connected by cables made of steel, the carriages work on a counterbalance system....
Broseley Pipeworks was once a striving factory producing clay pipes by the millions and exported them throughout the world, now sits abandoned. It still well preserved and remains as if the work force has just left moments before you arrive....
The extensive ruins of a Cistercian abbey, including much of its fine 12th-century church. In a woodland setting beside the River Severn, not far from the Iron Bridge....
Caer Caradoc is one of the most prominent of the South Shropshire Hills, with a summit of approximately 459 metres or 1500 feet above sea level. Close to the summit is the site of an iron age hill fort.The history of Caer Caradoc is often associated ...
Cantlop Bridge is a single-span, cast-iron road bridge over the Cound Brook. Designed by the great engineer Thomas Telford, who was instrumental in shaping industrial Shropshire and the West Midlands....
Extensive and beautiful area of upland heath. This popular area, with excellent facilities for all, includes part of the great ridge, the Long Mynd, with stunning views across the Shropshire and Cheshire plains and Black Mountains. This is excellent ...
Clun Castle's dramatic riverside ruins and extensive earthworks of a Welsh Border Norman castle, its tall keep unusually set on the side of its mound....
Discover the place where Abraham Darby I made the smelting of iron with coke instead of charcoal. It was this that helped build iron to be the crucial material of the Industrial Revolution. The museum helps bring back to life the revolutionary method...
Coalport China Museum was residence to the famous companies until 1926 and is housed with the best examples of their labour....
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....
Daniels Mill and it's impressive waterwheel have been carefully restored to it's former glory.
The watermill is virtually unaltered since the 18th Century and still in the ownership of the same family for over 250 years.
Daniels Mill is a fully...
Late 17th-century mansion with art collection, lakeside garden and estate. The house, with its intimate family rooms, contains fine furniture and Dutch flower paintings, as well as one of Britain's most important public collections of contemporary ar...
Haughmond Abbey are now the extensive remains of an Augustinian abbey, including its abbots' quarters, refectory and cloister. The substantially surviving chapter house has a frontage richly bedecked with 12th and 14th century carving and statuary, ...
There have been gardens at Hodnet since the 11th century when the Heber-Percy family constructed their first house in the parkland. Their serious development began in 1921 by the late Brigadier Heber-Percy and today, the 60+ acres are renowned as am...
Hoo Farm has approximately 50 different types of creature (which include mammals, birds and reptiles).We believe that because we are a farm it is important that all our visitors get the chance to meet as many animals as they can and experience there ...
Delightful museum illustrating the life of the town. Much of the collection has been donated or loaned to the museum by the local inhabitants and serves to paint a lively picture of life in a thriving Victorian town which has had a market since 1128....
The world's first iron bridge was erected over the River Severn here in 1779. Britain's best-known industrial monument, the bridge gave its name to the spectacular wooded gorge which, though now tranquil, was once an industrial powerhouse and the cra...
Jackfield was once at the centre of the world's tile industry. Jackfield Tile Museum is housed in a vast Victorian factory and commemorates the ornamental tiles that once charned the Empire....
Langley Chapel is a small chapel tranquilly set all alone in charming countryside. Its atmospheric interior contains a perfect set of 17th-century timber furnishings, including a musicians' pew....
The founding community was brought to Lilleshall Abbey from Dorchester Abbey in Oxfordshire and, as at Dorchester, for a time the canons followed the specific customs and daily religious observance of the important Augustinian monastery at Arrouaise ...
Ludlow Castle, the finest of medieval ruined castles, set in glorious Shropshire countryside, at the heart of this superb, bustling black & white market town.
Walk through the Castle grounds and see the ancient houses of kings, queens, princes, ju...
The museum tells the story of the town of Ludlow and includes some of the important events and the people who have lived and worked here; from Bronze Age farmers, through to the present day.
Visitors can also discover how Sir Roderick Murchison, t...
Moreton Corbet Castle are the ruins of the medieval castle and Tudor manor house of the Corbets are dominated by the theatrical shell of an ambitious Elizabethan mansion wing in Italianate style, which was devastated during the Civil War. Fine Corbet...
Stone-built house of Elizabethan origin. The house was altered and enlarged in the 18th century and is set in attractive gardens....
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...
The museum is small but it is crammed full with things to see and do, and most importantly there are stories waiting to be heard. So we suggest you allow at least an hour for your visit, some people stay a lot longer.
The museum is suitable for ev...
Old Oswestry Hill Fort is the most hugely impressive Iron Age hillfort on the Welsh Borders, covering 40 acres, with formidable multiple ramparts....
We are the Cambrian Railways Society, based in the Welsh-border market town of Oswestry. Formed in 1972, the group has spent the intervening period gathering an invaluable collection of artefacts from railways in the former Cambrian Railways Company ...
Six-acre garden open to the public with home-made teas available. Garden built on historic monastic site dating from 12thC. Extensive woodland walks....
Unwind in the wildlife and natural habitat of woodlands and twisting pathways. Enjoy at close hand our animals on the farm, with the likes of Donkeys, Horse, Ponies, Llamas , Alpacas, Sheep, Pig, Rabbits, Guinea Pigs. Your sure to have a great day....
The site provides an attractive 30-45 minute circular walk. There is also access onwards to the Long Mynd for those wanting to explore further.
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The Royal Air Force Museum at Cosford houses one of the largest aviation collections in the United Kingdom. 70 historic aircraft are displayed in three wartime hangars and within The National Cold War Exhibition. This landmark building costing £12.5...
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....
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...
Stokesay Castle is quite simply the finest and best preserved fortified medieval manor house in England. Set in peaceful countryside near the Welsh border, the castle, timber-framed gatehouse and parish church form an unforgettably picturesque group....
Late-Victorian gentleman's suburban villa. The house is typical of the many thousands that were built for prosperous business and professional people on the fringes of Victorian towns and cities. Sunnycroft is one of the very few -- perhaps the only ...
Intimacy and that quintessentially English gardening tradition of informality, epitomise the 'essence' of The Dorothy Clive Garden. This jewel of horticulture, nestling between the boundaries of Shropshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire, is a garden tha...
The Mere at Ellesmere is a beautiful lake with formal Victorian gardens and historic parkland on the edge of the medieval market town of Ellesmere. The Mere-side promenade, gardens and Boathouse Visitor Centre have recently been restored to their for...
After a short brief, enjoy the flight in our aircraft to 10 thousand feet, checking out the views on the way up before sliding to the edge of the door attached to one of our Tandem Instructors. You freefall for 25-30 seconds before the parachute open...
Shrewsbury's last remaining watchtower. Built in the 14th century, the tower overlooks the River Severn.
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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...
Weston Park is one of the most welcoming stately homes with as much character as any English castle and with as many stories as any royal home.
Open to the public for a day out or perfect for private celebrations, Weston offers more than just beau...
The White Ladies Priory remains of a late 12th-century church of a small priory of Augustinian canonesses, surrounded by picturesque woodland....
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....
Wroxeter (or 'Viroconium') was the fourth largest city in Roman Britain. It began as a legionary fortress and later developed into a thriving civilian city, populated by retired soldiers and traders. Though much still remains below ground, today the ...
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